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Salmonellosis is a symptomatic infection caused by bacteria of the Salmonella type. [1] It is the most common disease to be known as food poisoning (though the name refers to food-borne illness in general), these are defined as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food.
Forty-five people received hospital treatment; all survived. [18] The primary delivery tactic involved one member concealing a plastic bag containing a light-brown liquid with the Salmonella bacteria (referred to by the perpetrators as "salsa" [14]), and either spreading it over the food at a salad bar, or pouring it into salad dressing. [19]
Salmonella species are intracellular pathogens, [6] of which certain serotypes cause illness such as salmonellosis. Most infections are due to the ingestion of food contaminated by feces. Typhoidal Salmonella serotypes can only be transferred between humans and can cause foodborne illness as well as typhoid and paratyphoid fever.
Hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada have been sickened and at least 10 people have died in a growing outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe.
Experts have discovered that salmonella has been depleting a key protein which the body’s own immune cells need to function. Breakthrough could ‘unleash’ potential of salmonella bowel cancer ...
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella Typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells. Salmonella is a bacterium that produces the symptoms of diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps in infected individuals 12-72 hours after exposure. Most people recover without treatment and the illness usually lasts for 4-7 days. [11]
Salmonella and norovirus were the top contaminants. Salmonella was the cause of illness in two of the three largest outbreaks that year. Hummus was the top source with 802 illnesses, the CDC reported.
Foodborne illness (also known as foodborne disease and food poisoning) [1] is any illness resulting from the contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites, [2] as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.