SALMONELLA PANAMA

31 December 1938

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 111 (27) , 2458-2460
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1938.02790530012005

Abstract

It is of special interest to record the occurrence in New York of a bacterium belonging to the paratyphoid or Salmonella group, which has been reported only once before, in 1934, from cultures sent by E. O. Jordan in Chicago to F. Kauffmann in Copenhagen. The organism in question had been recovered during the study of an outbreak of food poisoning among American soldiers in Panama. The culture, according to Kauffmann,¹had distinct serologic characters and was listed as a new type, Salmonella panama. The paratyphoid or Salmonella group, named after D. E. Salmon, once a co-worker of Theobald Smith, includes several types or species causing enteric fever or gastro-enteritis. For many years three main types of Salmonella have been considered as a cause of food poisoning: Bacterium or Salmonella aertrycke (other names: Bacillus breslaviensis, Bacterium pestis caviarum, Bacterium typhi murium, mutton type), Bacterium or Salmonella enteritidis,

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