Extraintestinal salmonellosis.
Between 1969 and 1984, 6564 non-typhoid salmonella strains were isolated at the Liverpool Public Health Laboratory of which 194 (3.0%) were from extraintestinal sites. Blood (34%) and urine (32%) isolates accounted for two-thirds of these, with the remainder being recovered from pus and inflammatory tissue (23%), bone (5%), cerebrospinal fluid (5%) and sputum (3%). Certain serotypes tended to cause more invasive disease than others, i.e. Salmonella choleraesuis, S. dublin, S. london, S. virchow and S. panama: this association for S. london has not previously been described. The spectrum of disease caused by non-typhoid strains was broad. This survey confirms the importance of non-typhoid salmonellas as occasional causes of invasive disease and local sepsis outside the gastrointestinal tract.
Wilkins
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Public Health Laboratory, Fazakerley Hospital, Liverpool.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000382:microbiology; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012475:Salmonella / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D013492:Suppuration / Q000382:microbiology; D014556:Urine / Q000382:microbiology