Yersinia Infection in Acute Anterior Uveitis

To the Editor.  —I read with interest the article by Wakefield and colleagues in the February 1990 issue of the Archives.¹ This well-conducted study found evidence of previous Yersinia infection in 12 of 28 consecutive patients with anterior uveitis.Cafferkey, Eustace, and I² previously reported serologic evidence of this infection in 13 of 54 patients with anterior uveitis who were surveyed. Wakefield and colleagues did not refer to our work and I am writing to provide the reference for interested readers.In serologic testing, we used tube saline agglutination tests, and not the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method used by Wakefield and colleagues. However, the similar results emphasize that this condition may be widely undiagnosed in patients with acute anterior uveitis