[Infectious erythema of yersiniosis etiology]

A study is presented of 14 patients (9 adults, 5 children) with infectious erythema interpreted as one of the clinical variants of generalized skin form of yersiniosis. Along with typical signs of erythema, signs were found characteristic of yersiniosis, namely, mesadenitis, acute hepatitis, desquamative glossitis, changes in the ileocecal region, dyspeptic phenomena, tendency to a wave-like course. The clinical signs and symptoms of infectious erythema of yersiniosis etiology are illustrated by cases from the practice. The diagnosis was confirmed in 13 patients serologically in the reaction of agglutination with living cultures of yersiniae, in 1 patients bacteriologically and serologically.