SALMONELLA SUIPESTIFER INFECTIONS IN MAN

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Abstract
In recent years, an increasing number of sporadic cases of Salmonella suipestifer infections in man,1 not associated with outbreaks of food poisoning, have been reported in all parts of the world. In the great majority of instances, the source of the infection has remained undetermined, and no definite relationship to infected pigs or pork could be established. These cases have presented an extremely varied clinical picture: in some the signs and symptoms suggested bronchopneumonia, in others typhoid. In some instances Salmonella suipestifer infection was found as a postoperative complication, and in children pyarthrosis has been reported by several observers.2 The diagnosis was made by blood culture in all the cases except those of arthritis. In the latter, Salmonella suipestifer was grown from the pus aspirated from the affected joint. In one instance this organism has been isolated from the spinal fluid of a case of chronic meningitis.3

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