Salmonellosis — A Review of Some Unusual Aspects

Abstract

THE pathogenicity of salmonellae was first pointed out by Gärtner1 in 1888 in an epidemic of gastroenteritis. Since that time, many reports dealing with the bacteriology, clinical aspects, epidemiology and control of this disease have appeared. However, control has been obviously inadequate judging from the increasing incidence of the disease. Thus, MacCready et al.2 have observed a tenfold increase in incidence in Massachusetts from 1950 to 1956. Edwards3 has pointed out that, whereas typhoid fever has gradually declined during the period from 1946 to 1955, paratyphoid fever and other salmonella infections have increased sevenfold throughout the country.3 Moreover, it has . . .