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Infecção por yersinia

Last reviewed: 12 Dec 2025
Last updated: 22 Jun 2023

Summary

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • sintomas constitucionais
  • linfadenite (peste bubônica)
  • hemoptise (peste pneumônica)
  • diarreia (yersiniose)
  • dor abdominal (yersiniose)
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • dor torácica pleurítica (peste pneumônica)
  • dispneia (peste pneumônica)
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Fatores de risco

  • exposição a pulgas (peste)
  • residência ou viagem para uma área endêmica (peste)
  • contato com animais infectados (peste)
  • bioterrorismo (peste)
  • crianças pequenas (yersiniose)
  • consumo de produtos suínos crus ou malcozidos (yersiniose)
  • exposição a pessoas com peste (peste)
  • hemocromatose (yersiniose)
  • doença hepática crônica, diabetes, alcoolismo (yersiniose)
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • hemocultura (peste)
  • cultura de aspirado do bubão (peste bubônica)
  • cultura de escarro (peste pneumônica)
  • cultura de líquido cefalorraquidiano (peste septicêmica)
  • cultura de amostra de swab da garganta (peste faríngea)
  • detecção de antígeno (peste)
  • contagem leucocitária (peste)
  • radiografia torácica (peste pneumônica)
  • coprocultura (yersiniose)
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • sorologia (peste ou yersiniose)
  • reação em cadeia da polimerase (peste)
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Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

peste pneumônica ou septicêmica: adultas não gestantes e crianças

peste bubônica ou faríngea: adultas não gestantes e crianças

peste pneumônica, septicêmica, bubônica ou faríngea: gestante

peste meníngea

yersiniose

Colaboradores

Autores

John Williams, MRCP, DTM&H, Dip HIV Med
John Williams

Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician

Department of Infection and Travel Medicine

The James Cook University Hospital

Middlesbrough

UK

Declarações

JW declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Vladimir L. Motin, PhD

Professor

Pathology/Microbiology and Immunology

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston

TX

Declarações

VLM declares that he has no competing interests.

Waleed Javaid, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Associate Professor

Medical Director of Infection Control

Infectious Disease

Department of Medicine

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Syracuse

NY

Declarações

WJ declares that he has no competing interests.

Alistair Leanord, BSc, MBChB, MD, DTM&H, FRCPath

Consultant Microbiologist

Microbiology Department

Southern General Hospital

Glasgow

UK

Declarações

AL declares that he has no competing interests.

Janak Koirala, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

Department of Internal Medicine

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Springfield

IL

Disclosures

JK declares that he has no competing interests.

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Key articles

World Health Organization. WHO guidelines for plague management. May 2021 [internet publication].Full text

Nelson CA, Meaney-Delman D, Fleck-Derderian S, et al. Antimicrobial treatment and prophylaxis of plague: recommendations for naturally acquired infections and bioterrorism response. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2021 Jul 16;70(3):1-27.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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