Yersinia enterocolitica is a gram-negative coccobacillus with worldwide distribution that commonly causes gastroenteritis and
mesenteric adenitis in children and adolescents.
In our study, there were 3 patients of the
mesenteric adenitis presenting with acute pelvic pain.
ivanovii and human
mesenteric adenitis (5), suggests that these bacteria can cross the intestinal barrier in humans, cause gastroenteritis, and disseminate into the bloodstream.
Among these diagnoses were inflammatory bowel disease,
mesenteric adenitis, ovarian cysts, pelvic inflammatory disease, and ureteral calculi, he said.
Relationship to change in diet, loss of positively acquired maternal immunity (early weaning away from breast milk), acute enteritis with hyperperistalsis and
mesenteric adenitis have been known to be present in infancy with idiopathic intussusception and the increased incidence in early summer months common in infant intussusception (6).
[Severe forms of acute
mesenteric adenitis and intestinal anthrax].