Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | |
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| Yersinia scanned with electron micrograph | |
| Specialty | Infectious disease |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Yersiniaceae |
| Genus: | Yersinia |
| Species: | Y. pseudotuberculosis |
| Binomial name | |
| Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Pfeiffer 1889) Smith & Thal 1965 | |
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Far East scarlet-like fever in humans, who occasionally get infected zoonotically, most often through the food-borne route. Animals are also infected by Y. pseudotuberculosis. The bacterium is urease positive.