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Yersinia enterocolitica in Drinking Water

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Drinking Water Microbiology

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Beginning in the 1930s, the New York State Health Department reported sporadic isolations over nearly twenty years of unusual bacteria associated most often with enteritis in children (Schleifstein and Coleman, 1939). The organisms were gram-negative fermentive bacilli that had several identical biochemical characteristics (sucrose and indole positive, rhamnose negative, motile at 20°C but not at 37°C), demonstrated common antigens, and were highly virulent for mice. They were tentatively named Bacterium enterocoliticum (Schleifstein and Coleman, 1943).

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Schiemann, D.A. (1990). Yersinia enterocolitica in Drinking Water. In: McFeters, G.A. (eds) Drinking Water Microbiology. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4464-6_15

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