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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
salmonella
noun
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▪ Against that background, the minister seems intent on wiping out salmonella, but only in the egg-laying flocks.
▪ And unusual strains of salmonella have increased too.
▪ Meat, poultry and eggs all can carry salmonella.
▪ Modern methods of livestock farming have come under severe attack since the 1989 outbreak of salmonella.
▪ The woman, it seems, has cut eggs from her diet for fear of possible salmonella poisoning.
▪ Though state health officials blamed salmonella in the death, they had not yet determined the source of the bacteria.
▪ Three die in salmonella outbreak at hospital.
▪ We have our own Ministry registered salmonella testing laboratory with around 8000 raw materials and animal rations assayed annually.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Salmonella

1913, the genus name, coined 1900 in Modern Latin by J. Lignières in reference to U.S. veterinary surgeon Daniel E. Salmon (1850-1914), who isolated a type of the bacteria in 1885.

Wiktionary
salmonella

n. Any of several rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus ''Salmonella'', that cause food poisoning and other diseases

WordNet
salmonella
  1. n. rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

  2. [also: salmonellae (pl)]

Wikipedia
Salmonella

Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped ( bacillus) gram-negative bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family. The two species of Salmonella are Salmonella enterica and Salmonella bongori. Salmonella enterica is the type species and is further divided into six subspecies that include over 2500 serovars.

S. enterica subspecies are found worldwide in all warm-blooded animals, and in the environment. S. bongori is restricted to cold-blooded animals particularly reptiles. Strains of Salmonella cause illnesses such as typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, and food poisoning ( salmonellosis).

Usage examples of "salmonella".

Another bacterium called Campylobacter, which occurs twice as frequently as salmonella, has a relatively high occurrence in young adults, and is now the number-one cause of gastroenteritis in the United States, causing hundreds of deaths each year.

Between the carrion scene and some salmonella tacos served up by the Nogales-based caterer, as well as repeated propositions by an Arab coproducer with halitosis that made her eyes water, Molly was sick for three days.

Melanoma, Miasma, Treblinka, and Polyploidy in favor of one that sounded safe: Salmonella.

In September 1984 an outbreak of food poisoning caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium swept through the community of The Dalles, the quiet county seat of Wasco County, Oregon.

Hookworms, tapeworms, pinworms, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, hepatitis, salmonella and dozens of other diseases have been attributed to the house fly.

The goddamn poultry industry puts out a product that's almost a hundred percent swimming in either salmonella or campylobacter and nobody says boo.

Wolf, watching a naked child defecate on a pile of garbage, recalled reading a city Health Services report - quickly suppressed by the mayor's office - that found the number of colonies of pathogenic micro-organisms like diplococcus, staph, amoeba and salmonella per cubic metre here to be completely off the measurement scale.

Do not use wooden cutting boards because they are more difficult to clean and can harbor salmonella and its mutants.

The best that his optimistic stepdaughter could hope for seemed to be salmonella contamination of the undercooked egg yolks.

Just at the end of the war one variety of it, Salmonella enteritidis, laid low about thirty people in Stoke-on-Trent.

Also on the application McDonald's says if you have any of the following diseases: Hepatitis a Salmonella Shigella Staphylococcus Giardia or Campylobacter, then you may not work there.

The Rajneeshee sect put salmonella in salad bars in restaurants around town, and seven hundred and fifty people got sick.