Yersinia pseudotuberculosis: a rare cause of septicemia

0196-4399/00 (see frontmatter) © 2007 Elsevier Clinical Microbiology Newsletter 29:10,2007 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a pathogen well known by veterinary microbiologists but is uncommon in human infections. Septicemia in humans is especially rare. To the best of our knowledge, 63 cases of septicemia in humans have been described worldwide (1-4). Most of these patients have underlying conditions, such as cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, diabetes mellitus, hemodialysis, kidney transplantation, or HIV infection (1-3,5). We report a case of septicemia in a patient with a subgluteal abscess but with no underlying disease.