PMID: 2484501Nov 1, 1989Paper

Minor salmonellosis in childhood: epidemiological and preventive considerations

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
R Comi, M Filippini

Abstract

The diffusion of so-called minor salmonellosis in Italy, 18,135 isolates in 1985 -and the serious illness that they may induce in correlation to age and state of health have moved the Authors to consider their epidemiology and discuss their prevention. The morbidity per 100,000 population, from about 10 in the early '70s, has grown to a peak of 22.22 in 1976 and, after having irregularly reduced to a value of 16.76 in 1984, has grown again to 22.23 in 1986. Travelling abroad, modern breeding technologies, animals and raw food trade among States are frequently indicated as the most important factors in spreading salmonellas. The rise of morbidity in Italy has indeed occurred in concomitance with the renewal of breeding activity realized by means of animals imported from abroad, and moreover, presence of strains of S. typhimurium identical to those which caused serious epidemic outbreaks in bovine and humans in Great Britain and other Countries of North Europe is now ascertained. Recently, cooked ham prepared with raw meat contaminated with two serotypes uncommon in Italy (S. corvallis and S. mbandaka), imported from Rumania and Holland, has been the cause of two foodborne outbreaks each showing both of the above contaminants. At...Continue Reading

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