Pseudotuberculosis

pseu·do·tu·ber·cu·lo·sis (sd-t-bûrky-lss)

n.

Any of several diseases characterized by granulomas that resemble tubercular nodules but that are not caused by the tubercle bacillus.

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pseudotuberculosis

[-t(y)o̅o̅bur′kyəlō′sis]

a pulmonary condition with symptoms resembling those of tuberculosis but not caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Pseudotuberculosis

Three conditions have been called pseudotuberculosis
Infectious disease Human infection by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis which causes acute mesenteric lymphadenitis, mimics acute appendicitis, resulting in abdominal pain and fever
Medspeak An artefact described in a young woman whose braided hair fell into the field of an AP chest film, and thus mimicked the radiologic appearance of tuberculosis
Research A virulent infection of experimental rodents—mice, rats—by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis and C kutscheri, causing nonspecific weakness and respiratory distress, possibly progressing to disseminated abscesses or less commonly, granulomas in lungs, kidneys, myocardium, liver, lymph nodes, etc.

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pseudotuberculosis

resembles tuberculosis. See also yersiniosis.

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avian pseudotuberculosis

a contagious disease of birds, both domestic and wild, caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and characterized by an initial, brief septicemia, followed by a bacteremic phase in which there is the development of multiple abscesses and granulomas as in avian tuberculosis.

The disease causes major epornithics in populations of canaries, finches, cockatoos, parakeets. Called also canary cholera.

bovine pseudotuberculosis

see johne's disease.