Salmonella

Features of Salmonella:
- motile
- black colonies on Hektoin Agar
- capsule
- acid labile. degraded in the stomach acid, need high doses of bacteria to get infected, except taking
omeprazole or pernicious anemia
- facultative intracellular macrophages
- gram negative: red

Salmonella Enteriditis Salmonella Typhi

main reservoir: uncooked chicken reservoir in gallbladder,
inflammatory diarrhea story about thyphoid mary the chef.
type 3 secretion system 25% develop rose spots
1# cause of osteomyelitis in pt w/ sickle cell
disease
constipation mostly, can cause diarrhea (green
like pea soup)
treaded with Ab: FQ, eg. Cipro
has live attenuated vaccine