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Article: Salmonella and Salmonella Food Poisoning
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Salmonella and Salmonella Food Poisoning
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BRIAN HOYLE
Salmonella is the name of a group, or genus, of bacteria that live in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded animals, including humans, as well as in cold-blooded animals such as turtles. The name of the microbe comes from its discoverer. In 1885, American veterinary scientist Daniel Salmon isolated the first strain (
Salmonella cholerasuis
) from the intestine of a pig.
Since his discovery, more than 2,300 different types of Salmonella have been discovered. While many of these can be innocuous in their normal intestinal environment, if they infect another area of the body (i.e., a cut) or contaminate food, illness can ...