Clinical presentation and treatment of a Salmonella bredeney epidemic in Shelby County, Alabama.
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 92 (8) , 799-801
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-199908000-00010
Abstract
Numerous residents of Shelby County, Alabama, were infected with Salmonella when a restaurant unknowingly served food tainted with the bacterium. Because of the similarity in symptoms caused by other gastrointestinal pathogens and the variability in time of presentation, an outbreak such as this could be confused with one of another pathogenic origin. The pathogen identified, Salmonella bredeney, is a particularly rare cause of food poisoning. It makes up only 0.1% of the Salmonella isolates identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) each year.Keywords
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