is salmonella contagious person to person ?
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is salmonella contagious person to person
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The epidemiology of Salmonella infections is related to
the ingestion of food and water contaminated by human and animal wastes. Salmonella typhi, the cause of typhoid fever, is transmitted only by humans, but all other species have a significant animal as well as human reservoir.
Human sources are either persons who temporarily excrete the organism during or shortly after an attack of enterocolitis or chronic carriers who excrete the organism
for years. The most frequent animal source is poultry
and eggs, but meat products that are inadequately cooked have been implicated as well. Dogs and other pets, including turtles, snakes, lizards, and iguanas, are additional
Sources.