Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008
Dispatch
Sudden Onset of Pseudotuberculosis in Humans, France, 2004–05
Pascal Vincent*†‡1
, Alexandre Leclercq§1 , Liliane Martin§, Jean-Marie Duez¶, Michel Simonet*‡2, Elisabeth Carniel§2, and Yersinia Surveillance Network
, Alexandre Leclercq§1 , Liliane Martin§, Jean-Marie Duez¶, Michel Simonet*‡2, Elisabeth Carniel§2, and Yersinia Surveillance Network
Table 2
Temporal distribution of receipt ofYersinia pseudotuberculosis blood isolates, France
| Period | Monthly isolates* |
Annual isolates | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | ||
| 1988–89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1989–90 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1990–91 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1991–92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1992–93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1993–94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1994–95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 1995–96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 1996–97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997–98 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1998–99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1999–00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2000–01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2001–02 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2002–03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003–04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004–05† | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
| 2005–06 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| 1988–2006‡ | 0 | 1 (0.06)§ | 2 (0.12) | 3 (0.18) | 9 (0.53) | 16 (0.94) | 19 (1.12) | 11 (0.65) | 5 (0.29) | 10 (0.59) | 2 (0.12) | 4 (0.24) | 82 (4.82) |
*Received by the French Yersinia National Reference Laboratory since September 1988. To encompass the whole cold season, isolates are presented in 12-month periods from September to August.
†Period of increased number of cases.
‡Excludes 2004–05.
§Numbers in parentheses are mean monthly value over the 17 years in which case numbers were not increased.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
2These authors contributed equally to the supervision of this work.
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