Clinical and Microbiologic Aspects of Salmonellosis

IT is our impression that the prevalence and clinical significance of salmonellosis, or human infections caused by salmonellas other than the typhoid bacillus, are frequently not appreciated as fully as they should be. A number of factors contribute to this situation. The first is the complexity of the methodology required to establish an unequivocal bacteriologic diagnosis and the lack of adequate facilities for the task in many laboratories, especially the smaller ones. The second is the multiplicity of clinical manifestations associated with these infections that militate against the formulation of a readily recognizable clinical syndrome. As a result definitive diagnosis . . .