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Extraintestinal salmonellosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

E. G. L. Wilkins
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Fazakerley Hospital, Lower Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL
C. Roberts
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Fazakerley Hospital, Lower Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL
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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 twothirds 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 nontyphoid salmonellas as occasional causes of invasive disease and local sepsis outside the gastrointestinal tract.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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