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The social and economic impact of salmonellosis. A report of a national survey in England and Wales of laboratory-confirmed Salmonella infections.

This study presents the findings of a national survey of 1482 cases of salmonellosis reported to Environmental Health Departments in England and Wales between August 1988 and March 1989. A questionnaire survey of ill individuals and the environmental health officers who investigated them sought information about costs which were imposed upon public health authorities, the health sector, individuals and their families and the costs to the wider economy in terms of lost production. Costs of 996,339 pounds were identified. Over half (507,555 pounds) resulted from lost production due to sickness absence and more than a third (392,822 pounds) were costs to the public sector which resulted from health care and local authority investigation of cases. The remaining costs (95,962 pounds), although the smallest proportion of the total, indicated that salmonellosis can have a significant impact on affected individuals and their families.

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[Proliferative processes in the epithelium of colon mucosa in patients with Salmonella infection during first 24 hours after the onset of the disease].

DNA synthesis in the epithelium of a distal portion of human colon was studied by radioautography with 3H-thymidine in patients during the first 24 hours of gastrointestinal salmonellosis. All 13 patients aged 18-50 years were admitted to hospital during 9-20 hours after the disease onset. Nobody had a background of gastrointestinal pathology. The control group consisted of samples from sigmoid colon epithelium of 30 healthy individuals. The labelled nuclei index (LNI) was 5.16 +/- 0.27%, the intensity of labelling (IL) was 13.65x +/- 0.82. Endoscopic and pathomorphological studies of colonic mucosa in salmonellosis by the end of the first 24 hours of the disease showed superficial inflammation. Increased LNI (11.48 +/- 1.07%, p < 0.05) characterized activation of proliferation and increased IL (22.24 +/- 2.1, p < 0.05) showed intensification of DNA synthesis. Additionally, in one third of cases enlargement of proliferation compartment up to 2/3 crypt was noticed. It is unlikely that in this situation immune mechanisms play the key role, it seems that a direct stimulation of proliferative processes by a bacterial agent takes place.

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Subdural empyema due to salmonella infection.

A case of a 6-month-old child with a Salmonella subdural empyema is reported. The causative organism was never suspected until the culture report was available. The child responded well to surgical drainage and antibiotic therapy.

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SECOND SURVEY OF MARKET POULTRY FOR SALMONELLA INFECTION.

On 34 days over a period of 30 months, samplings were made of randomly selected birds slaughtered in randomly chosen processing plants. Methods were designed so that Salmonella and paracolon bacteria isolated were indigenous to the intestinal tract of the selected bird. Incidence rates were 5.25% for turkeys, 0.54% for chicken hens, and 1.05% for chicken fryers. Infected birds, providing the potential for contamination, were processed on 58% (turkeys), 25% (chicken hens), and 43% (chicken fryers) of the days. Combined data from the present and previous surveys represent a total of 9,851 carcasses sampled on 94 separate days over a 4.5-year period; these data provide a more accurate analysis of incidence rates and days that positive birds were being slaughtered. For turkeys, chicken hens, and chicken fryers, incidence rates were 4.16, 0.65, and 1.42%, respectively, and days positive were 56, 14, and 32%.

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Natural subclinical salmonella infection in chickens: a potential model for testing the effects of various procedures on salmonella shedding.

The influence of growth additives on the duration of salmonella shedding has been variously reported. The different conclusions reached were mainly because of the different experimental systems used. In this paper a naturally infected chicken model for evaluating this problem is described. It simulates commercial conditions and proved to be reproducible in 13 groups, each of 125 birds, over a two-year period.

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Use of muscle fluid as a source of antibodies for serologic detection of Salmonella infection in slaughter pig herds.

Fluid drained from a muscle tissue sample was used as an alternative to serum for the detection of specific anti-Salmonella antibodies in an indirect LPS enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In the first study, serum and muscle fluid from 3 pigs experimentally infected with Salmonella typhimurium showed parallel dilution-response relationships when ELISA optical density (OD) values were plotted against sample dilution. ELISA results obtained with serum diluted 1:400 corresponded to those from muscle fluid diluted 1:30. In a second study, using the predetermined dilutions of individually paired serum and muscle fluid samples from 103 pigs, a high degree of concordance between the serum ELISA and the muscle fluid ELISA was observed. Limits of agreement between the 2 methods were calculated as -8.9 to 12.3 OD%, which was considered acceptable. The muscle fluid ELISA had specificities of 0.91-1.0 and sensitivities of 0.80-0.89 at various cutoff values as compared with the serum ELISA. Muscle fluid is a useful postmortem alternative to serum when used with an ELISA to detect anti-Salmonella antibodies.

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Presentation of Salmonella antigens by peritoneal cells of normal and Salmonella-infected mice.

A comparison of the ability of normal peritoneal cells (PC) and those harvested from mice 1-3 days after intraperitoneal immunization with live Salmonella enteritidis 11RX (11RX) to present antigen to 11RX-primed T cells was made using formalin-killed 11RX and a soluble 11RX antigen extract as antigens. Unfractionated PC and the adherent and non-adherent PC populations were analysed separately and the effects of the lysosomal function-impairing drug chloroquine and the fixative paraformaldehyde, used before or after antigen-pulsing, were also determined. The results presented indicate that immunization with live 11RX did not induce any detectable modulation of APC function which could account for the ability of live 11RX to induce cell-mediated immune responses involving Lyt 2+ T cells.

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