[Study of the epidemiology of Far Eastern scarlatina-like fever in the Maritime Territory. I. Contamination of vegetables, root crops and pickled foods with the pseudotuberculosis microbe (Yersinia pseudotuberculosis) in foci of the scarlatina-like fever].

There was revealed high incidence of contamination with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis of vegetables, roots and pickled products (less frequently) in the vegetable store-houses of the majority of the far Eastern scarlatina-like fever foci in Primorie. Contamination of the mentioned food products increased by the spring-beginning of summer seasons; vegetables and roots which are often used raw--onion, carrots, cabbage--displayed the greastest contamination.