[Study of the epidemiology of Far East scarlatiniform fever in the Maritime Territory. II. Contamination of environmental objects by the pseudotuberculosis microbe in foci of scarlatiniform fever].

External environment of vegetable storehouses and catering establishements in the foci of far-eastern scarlatina-like in the Primorsk territory was found to be considerably contaminated with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Epidemiological role of vegetable storehouses in the preservation of pseudotuberculosis microbe in the foci was demonstrated. In one case Y. pseudotuberculosis was isolated from soil.