Human Infection with Salmonella dublin
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Medicine
- Vol. 70 (3) , 198-207
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005792-199105000-00004
Abstract
Twenty-seven cases of human infection with Salmonella dublin were identified over a 12-year period at the University of California at San Diego-affiliated hospitals. Important epidemiologic risk factors were the ingestion of unpasteurized dairy products or treatment with nutritional therapy that included raw calf-liver extracts. Nearly all patients had underlying chronic diseases. Like Salmonella choleraesuis, S. dublin infections were associated with a high incidence of bacteremia (91%), metastatic sites of infection (30%), and mortality (26%) relative to other non-typhoidal Salmonellae. This pattern of disease expression may be related to a plasmid-encoded virulence factor common to both of these organisms.Keywords
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