Availability
Since 2009, lansoprazole has been available over the counter (OTC) in the U.S. as Prevacid 24HR and as Lansoprazole 24HR. In Australia, it is marketed by Pfizer as Zoton. Research
In vitro experiments have shown that lansoprazole binds to the pathogenic form of tau protein. As of 2015 laboratory studies were underway on analogs of lansoprazole to explore their use as potential PET imaging agents for diagnosing tauopathies including Alzheimers disease. References
External links
"Lansoprazole". Drug Information Portal. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
The provisional representation of species addressed by the resource has been indicated in the TaxBox on this page by a superscript yb beside the species name. Development of YersiniaBase was funded by the University of Malaya and the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Pathogenesis
Y. pestis is the causative agent of plague. The disease caused by Y. enterocolitica is called yersiniosis. Yersinia may be associated with Crohns disease, an inflammatory autoimmune condition of the gut. Iranian sufferers of Crohns disease were more likely to have had earlier exposure to refrigerators at home, consistent with its unusual ability to thrive at low temperatures. Yersinia is implicated as one of the causes of reactive arthritis worldwide.Also, the genus is associated with pseudoappendicitis, which is an incorrect diagnosis of appendicitis due to a similar presentation. History
Y. pestis, the first known species, was identified in 1894 by A.E.J. Yersin, a Swiss bacteriologist, and Kitasato Shibasaburō, a Japanese bacteriologist. It was formerly described as Pasteurella pestis (known trivially as the plague-bacillus) by Lehmann and Neumann in 1896. In 1944, van Loghem reclassified the species P. pestis and P. rondentium into a new genus, Yersinia. Following the introduction of the bacteriological code, it was accepted as valid in 1980. References
External links
Yersinia Enterocolitis Mimicking Crohns Disease in a Toddler
Sweden: Pork warnings over new stomach illness
Yersinia genomes and related information at PATRIC, a Bioinformatics Resource Center funded by NIAID
YersiniaBase