SALMONELLA

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SALMONELLA

Also well - known like Gastroenteritis by Salmonelosis, it is an infectious disease of nourishing type, caused by a called bacterium Salmonella of which they exist near 2. 200 serotipos.

The Salmonellas according to their effects is classified in three types:

Salmonella Typha, cause of the tifoidea fever.

Salmonella choleraesuis.

Salmonella enteritidis, that Integra by more than 2000 serotipos and each one has a complementary name.

The Salmonelosis can be pronounced of five different forms that can be presented / displayed in exclusive or superposed form, these are: asintomático carrier, is to say that it does not have symptoms; like an intestinal infection or gastroenteritis; like enteric, well - known fever like tifoidea; like a sanguineous infection that usually is very serious, well - known like bacteremia or like focal infections being those that are the meningitis, the osteomielitis or the abscesses.

The Salmonelosis also is caused by toxins that can be present in some plants, fungi, fish or seafood, or in tinned foods of inadequate form.

It generally affects the internal and occasionally they happen to the sanguineous torrent and constitutes one of the most common causes of gastroenteritis, appearing with greater incidence in the months of heat.

This disease can affect any person, although it is commonest in small young babies and.

One acquires by means of foods or water contaminated with fecal matter, as well as by the contact with ill people or animals.

Generally the symptoms appear between the 6 to 48 hours, after to have ingested contaminated foods and habitually the malaise usually lasts between 1 to 4 days. Some types usually are very dangerous like which it causes the tifoidea fever.

Between the symptoms of the disease they are:

slight or persistent Diarrea.

high Fever.

Nauseas and vomits in some cases.

abdominal Pain.

general Malaise.

In pregnant women who contract the bacterium, the pains usually are very strong and can get to transmit the infection to their baby, that can develop diarrea, fever and in some, cases, luckyly few, meningitis.

Between the foods that are contaminated with Salmonella, they are: cooked the crude meats or bad, milk nonpasteurizada and the milky products derived from her, crude eggs or little spanish stews, the meat of chicken, the alfalfa and the strawberries watered with black waters.

Other sources of I infect can be the infected mascots, like the turtles, chickens, dogs and cats.

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