| characteristics of yersinia intermedia-like bacteria isolated from patients with diarrhea in nigeria. | five yersinia strains, biochemically mimicking yersinia intermedia, were isolated from patients with acute diarrheal diseases seen at the university of lagos (nigeria) teaching hospital between october 1979 and september 1982. the five isolates utilized citrate as their source of carbon and fermented sucrose, l-rhamnose, and alpha-methyl-d-glucoside, but unlike any other y. intermedia biogroup, they failed to ferment d-melibiose or d-raffinose. they all belonged to serogroup o:52,53. four autoag ... | 1986 | 3711276 |