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Sore throat - acute - Making a diagnosis
Yersinial pharyngitis
- Yersinial pharyngitis is associated with contaminated food and drink, but in adults may occur without gastrointestinal symptoms. Rarely, there may be a fulminant course with a high mortality rate [Bisno, 2005].
- Fever, prominent cervical lymphadenopathy, and abdominal pain with or without diarrhoea have been reported [Bisno, 2005].
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