@article {Soto:2013:1532-0820:439,
title = "An Outbreak of Yersinia enterocolitica in a Captive Colony of African Green Monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) in the Caribbean",
journal = "Comparative Medicine",
parent_itemid = "infobike://aalas/cm",
publishercode ="aalas",
year = "2013",
volume = "63",
number = "5",
publication date ="2013-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "439-444",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1532-0820",
eissn = "2769-819X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aalas/cm/2013/00000063/00000005/art00008",
keyword = "RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REP-PCR, REPETITIVE-SEQUENCE–MEDIATED PCR, RAPD",
author = "Soto, Esteban and Griffin, Matt and Verma, Ashutosh and Castillo-Alcala, Fernanda and Beierschmitt, Amy and Beeler-Marfisi, Janet and Arauz, Maziel and Illanes, Oscar",
abstract = "
Yersinia enterocolitica is a zoonotic gram-negative pathogen that causes mesenteric lymphadenitis, terminal ileitis, acute gastroenteritis, and septicemia in domestic animals and primates. In 2012, 46 captive African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) died during
an outbreak of acutely fatal enteric disease over a period of 1 mo on the island of St Kitts. The affected monkeys presented with a history of mucohemorrhagic diarrhea, marked dehydration, and depression. Fifteen bacterial isolates were recovered from the spleen, liver, and lungs of affected
monkeys. All isolates were identified as Y. enterocolitica by biochemical analysis and sequence comparison of the 16S rRNA gene. Phenotypic and genotypic analysis of the recovered isolates revealed homogeneity among the recovered bacteria, and all isolates gave a random amplified polymorphic
DNA pattern resembling that given by genotype D under serotypes O:7,8. This outbreak represents the first isolation and characterization of Y. enterocolitica as the causative agent of fatal enteric disease in primates in the Caribbean.",
}