Friday, January 1, 2010

salmonella enteritidis salmonella typhimurium

food poisoning

- linked to food of animal andpoultry origins

- water or food contaminated with rat excreta can also transmit the infection

- all ages are affected

- the incidence is highest in infants

- accompanied by severe diarrhoea, fever and abd cramps

- ip is 8-48n hours

- disease last for 1 week or longer

- the organism replicate and invade the epithelial cells of small and large intestine ( not n macrophages ) leading to intestinal lesions and diarrhoea

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