Salmonellosis — A Review of Some Unusual Aspects

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Salmonellosis Complicating Other DiseasesThe 5 patients described in Table 6 all had underlying diseases, and the salmonella infection was superimposed. Cases 19–22 had cancer, and in Case 23, salmonella infection of a gangrenous toe occurred in a sixty-nine-year-old diabetic man. Case 19 had been treated with radium implantations in the uterus for inoperable carcinoma, and acute salmonella gastroenteritis developed during the terminal admission. Case 20, a twenty-one-month-old baby, had widespread neuroblastoma involving the kidneys, pancreas, adrenal glands, ovaries, lymph nodes, brain and skeleton. She received irradiation to the pelvis and middle fossa of the skull. Five days later a high temperature . . .