Does salmonella have a common or medical name?
Sorry to everybody for the length but this should help you. it is from Up to Date Online, a medical review journal INTRODUCTION — Salmonellae are motile gram-negative bacilli, which infect or colonize a wide range of mammalian hosts. They cause a number of characteristic clinical infections in humans, including: Gastroenteritis Enteric fever (systemic illness with fever and abdominal symptoms) Bacteremia and endovascular infection Focal metastatic infections such as osteomyelitis or abscess An asymptomatic chronic carrier state. BACTERIOLOGY — Based upon high levels of DNA similarity, all clinically important Salmonellae are formally classified as a single species, Salmonella choleraesuis [1]. Familiar organisms such as Salmonella typhi, Salmonella choleraesuis, and Salmonella enteritidis, previously believed to represent separate species based upon antigenic structures, host range, and biochemical characteristics, are now individual serotypes of this single parent species. Most labora
