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Salmonellosis includes two groups of diseases: typhoid fever and non-typhic infections. Epidemiological and clinical features are different in each group. Typhoid fever is a major health problem in developing countries. It realizes septicemia and endotoxinic symptoms, and has not to be forgotten when the patient is back from travelling. Non-typhic infections in most cases produce acute feverish diarrhea, conforming with collective food toxi-infection. Non digestive localizations are usually the fact of underlying diseases, and are able to kill the patient.
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PMID:[Clinical aspects of salmonellosis]. 129 92

This working party was convened by the organizers of the World Congresses of Gastroenterology, Sydney 1990. Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy. Endoscopy plays an essential role in the management of gastrointestinal disorders; its benefits far outweigh the occasional complications which arise. Nevertheless, case reports and surveys performed over a 20-year period confirm that endoscopic procedures do occasionally cause cross-infection and the current epidemic with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has highlighted the potential for more serious disease transmission if suitable precautionary measures are not generally applied in endoscopy practice. Contaminated equipment may cause infection in three ways: transmission of pathogenic organisms from one patient to another, the commonest example being Salmonellosis; transmission of infection such as hepatitis B (HBV) from patient to staff by needle-stick injury; and introduction of opportunistic organisms which colonize endoscopic and ancillary equipment on storage. This may cause focal sepsis or septicaemia, particularly in the immunocompromised, or cholangitis and pancreatic sepsis following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). These risks can be eliminated by the use of effective cleaning and disinfection techniques, by providing suitable staff training and by paying attention to endoscopy room procedures. Both HBV and HIV are inactivated by all currently accepted disinfecting or sterilizing procedures.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Disinfection and endoscopy: summary and recommendations. Working party report to the World Congresses of Gastroenterology, Sydney 1990. 188 72

In a 10-year cohort of 117 infants hospitalized in Honolulu with Salmonella infections, there were 12 infants with bacteremia or complications (simple bacteremia, 7; bacteremia with probably unrelated concurrent infection, 2; serious complications, 3). The rate of serious complications in this cohort was low and occurred only in infants with previous chronic illness or clinically obvious extraintestinal infection at the time of presentation. Antibiotics were not shown to be of benefit in reducing the frequency of complications; however, the sample size was too small to make definitive conclusions. These data do not support the contention that infants with Salmonella gastroenteritis are at increased risk of complications and should therefore be treated with antibiotics. Rather, the same clinical risk factors for sepsis that apply to all infants also apply to infants with Salmonella gastroenteritis and the decision to begin antibiotic treatment should be based on similar clinical information.
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PMID:Salmonella infections in infants in Hawaii. 334 Apr 59

A thrombocytopenic, leukopenic patient with multiple myeloma who was given 7 units of platelets died 6 days later from complications of Salmonella heidelberg septicemia. A platelet donor who was asymptomatic at the time of donation had group B Salmonella on stool culture. His clinical history and the results of serologic studies and stool culture were consistent with a mild Salmonella gastroenteritis 5 days before donation. Antibiotic sensitivity patterns and plasmid profiles indicated that the organism (S. heidelberg) isolated from the donor's stool was identical to that isolated from the patient's blood and from the platelet bags. It is believed that low-grade, asymptomatic bacteremia in the donor was the source of infection in the recipient. Food and Drug Administration records contain reports of six septic deaths due to platelet transfusions since 1979, compared with none in the preceding 4 years. Increased use of platelet products and the standard practice of storage at room temperature may contribute to the risk of sepsis after platelet transfusion, particularly in immunocompromised patients.
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PMID:Fatal Salmonella septicemia after platelet transfusion. 381 Aug 19

We studied 182 sick, febrile (temperature greater than 38 degrees C) infants less than 3 months of age, who presented at our Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, during a one-year period, to determine the relative causes of fever in this age group. Blood, cerebrospinal fluid, urine, nasopharyngeal secretions, and stool specimens were cultured for bacterial and viral pathogens. Paired acute and convalescent sera were collected to serologically confirm infection in infants from whom viral isolations were obtained only from the nasopharynx or stool. A viral pathogen was isolated in 75 infants (41%) and a bacterial pathogen was isolated in 27 infants (15%). Nonpolio enteroviruses were the most common pathogens demonstrated. They were isolated from 64 infants (35%), and 40 (62%) of these infants had aseptic meningitis, the most frequently made diagnosis. Urinary tract infection was the most common bacterial infection observed. It occurred in 20 infants (11%) and was most often seen without associated pyuria in uncircumcised male infants. Salmonellosis, the second most common bacterial infection, was observed in six infants (3%), and two of these did not have diarrhea or other gastrointestinal tract symptoms. No infant had septicemia and only one infant had bacterial (group B streptococcal) meningitis.
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PMID:Bacterial and viral pathogens causing fever in infants less than 3 months old. 403 21

Salmonellosis in older children and adults is usually a self-limited disease, but the risk of complications in infants is not well-defined. We performed a retrospective review of 52 patients. 90 days of age or less, seen at the St. Louis Children's Hospital between 1975 and 1981 with stool cultures positive for salmonella. Sixteen were 30 days old or less (neonates), 21 were 31- 60 days of age, and 15 were 61-90 days old. Among patients in whom blood cultures were done initially, bacteremia was most frequent in neonates: 5/11 (45%), compared to 2/18 (11%) in older infants. All seven infants presenting with bacteremia received 10 or more days of antibiotic therapy: yet complications (osteomyelitis, fatal meningitis or chronic diarrhea) developed in three of five neonates and one of two older infants. Complications also developed in seven of 22 patients who initially had negative blood cultures, including two infants in whom sepsis later developed and two infants who required intravenous hyperalimentation because of chronic diarrhea and malnutrition. The group of 23 patients who did not have blood cultures all did well. Salmonellosis is not necessarily a self-limited infection in young infants. Even in the absence of bacteremia, clinicans would appear to be justified in using antimicrobial therapy in infants 3 months of age or les with salmonella gastroenteritis, particularly neonates of older infants with symptoms of dysentery or failure to thrive.
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PMID:Salmonella gastroenteritis in the first three months of life. A review of management and complications. 714 Jan 21

Of seven infants with Salmonella sepsis, three had meningitis. A review of these cases and others previously reported demonstrated that among infants less than 1 year old in Arkansas, Salmonella infection developed in 383 over a 31/2-year period. The reported incidence of sepsis and/or meningitis was 1.8%; for those less than 2 months of age, it was 5.0%. Epidemiologic investigation failed to disclose a consistent source of the Salmonella colonization for young infants. Treatment of meningitis with ampicillin sodium was frequently associated with relapse or clinical failure, while chloramphenicol or a chloramphenicol-ampicillin combination appeared to offer superior efficacy. Consideration should be given to antibiotics for the routine treatment of Salmonella gastroenteritis in infants less than 3 months of age.
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PMID:Salmonella sepsis in infancy. 731 4

Among the opportunistic infections observed during infection with human immunodeficiency virus, recurrent non-typhoid salmonella bacteriemia has not been widely documented in Black Africa. This retrospective study identified 5 cases of non-typhoid salmonellosis in a series of 27 seropositive patients, i.e. 18.5%, hospitalized over a two-year period in an internal medicine department in Senegal. All 27 patients presented general or digestive manifestations and were in the stage of full-blown AIDS. The diagnosis was salmonella septicemia in 60% of cases. The incidence of salmonella is higher in immunocompromised patients than in healthy subjects, particularly in Africa. These infections frequently lead to bacteriemia, have a strong tendency to recur, and are highly indicative of immunodeficiency. Salmonellosis which is curable should be suspected in seropositive African patients presenting general and/or digestive manifestations.
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PMID:[Five cases of non-typhoid salmonellosis in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus in Senegal]. 756 93

Clinical presentation of generalized salmonellosis is reviewed. Typhus-like form occurred in 28, septic form in 15 cases (0.5 and 0.3% of all the patients observed, respectively). Salmonellosis sepsis is hard to detect in view of multiple visceral lesions, long-term fever and severe intoxication.
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PMID:[The clinical picture of generalized forms of salmonellosis]. 932 1

All food animals are susceptible to infection with Salmonella, a genus of gram negative, nonspore-forming, usually motile, facultative anaerobic bacilli belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Salmonella are differentiated into over 2200 serologically distinct types (serotypes) based on differences in somatic, flagellar, and capsular antigens. Infection with Salmonella may or may not lead to a sometimes fatal salmonellosis, a disease that can remain localized in the gastrointestinal tract as gastro-enteritis, or become generalized as a septicemia and affect several organ systems. Infected food animals that do not develop salmonellosis, and those that recover from the disease, become carriers of Salmonella and serve as sources of infection to humans and other animals. Apart from being a source of Salmonella food poisoning for humans, Salmonella-contaminated food animal carcasses are also a concern because they are a source of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella.
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PMID:Microbial food borne pathogens. Salmonella. 953 64


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