New types of African Salmonella associated with lethal infection
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 19:01
in Health & Medicine
The first global-scale genetic study of Salmonella Enteritidis bacteria, which is a major cause of blood poisoning and death in Africa and food poisoning in the Western World, has discovered that there are in fact three separate types. Scientists found two novel African types, which looked the same, but were genetically different from the Western type.