Salmonella choleraesuis
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Salmonella choleraesuis
Belongs to family Enterobacteriaceae, Gram negative, rod shaped, motile, aerobic and facultatively anaerobic: serological identification of somatic and flagellar antigens. A bacterium occurring in pigs and occasionally causing acute gastroenteritis and enteric fever in humans.
| Kingdom | Bacteria |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Proteobacteria |
| Class | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order | Enterobacteriales |
| Family | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus | Salmonella |
| Species | S. choleraesuis |
| Binomial | Salmonella choleraesuis |
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Surface Characteristics
Surface LPS of Salmonella choleraesuis SN57 [Ra] is a complex macromolecule composed of the biologically active lipid A moiety, covalently attached core oligosaccharide, and distally linked polysaccharide O-side chain.
Transmission
By ingestion of food contaminated directly from infected animals or indirectly by infected animal or person; from animal feeds and fertilizers prepared from contaminated meat scraps; fecal-oral transmission from person to person
Pathogenic Activity
Salmonellosis, an acute gastroenteritis with sudden onset of headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea and sometimes vomiting; may develop septicemia commonly with metastatic focal infections in any tissue of body, intravascular lesions, osteomyelitis, and meningitis; Fatality rate 2-3 times that of typhoid; food borne disease; few cases clinically recognized and reported; uncommon in humans, but important pathogen of swine; may cause typhoid like enteric fever
