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PASTEURELLA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS AS A CAUSE OF ERYTHEMA NODOSUM
Author(s) -
TURNER T. W.,
WILKINSON D. S.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1969.tb15950.x
Subject(s) - erythema nodosum , pharyngitis , pasteurella , erythema , medicine , dermatology , corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis , caseous lymphadenitis , immunology , pathology , biology , bacteria , disease , genetics
SUMMARY.— Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis is a widely distributed coccobacillary infection of birds and animals. Infections in man may present as mesenteric adenitis, lymphadenopathy, upper respiratory infections or pharyngitis: a septicaemic form occurs. Erythema nodosum has been reported, particularly in France, as a complication of such infections in children and young adult females. In an epidemiological survey of erythema nodosum in one region of England, two cases of erythema nodosum were found in children in which evidence of infection by P. pseudotuberculosis was obtained by agglutination and intradermal antigen tests. The diagnostic criteria are examined. A series of intradermal antigen tests and agglutination titres carried out on other patients with erythema nodosum and controls does not suggest that this infection is common in the area studied or is a frequent cause of erythema nodosum. But it is one that may easily be overlooked.