Vaccines are the most powerful biologicals which have modulated the economic, social and cultural life of human beings. Certain diseases have haunted humanity for centuries but are now extinct due to vaccines. On the other hand, some diseases such as salmonellosis, that were uncontrollable in the past, still cause pandemics today. There are more than 2500 serovars of Salmonella and vaccines mad...

plasmids play an important role in the virulence and antibiotic resistance of salmonella. salmonella carry plasmids having different size and number. plasmid profile analysis of single isolates of salmonella typhimurium and salmonella enteritidis revealed the presence of 4- plasmid profiles. salmonella serovars produce several type iii secretions including sop-e and sop –b. soap e is detected b...

I read with great interest the article published by Ollivier and others 1 about gastrointestinal illnesses among French Forces deployed to Djibouti. It offers a panorama of infectious diarrheas occurring in French soldiers deployed in this East African country and points out the high incidence rate of these affections even compared with Western Africa. I worked in the Medicine Unit of the Frenc...

Non-typhoidal salmonellosis remains an important public health problem worldwide. Dogs may harbour Salmonella in their intestines and can easily shed Salmonella in the environment with the possibility of transmission to humans. Thus, monitoring is essential to understand the role of dogs in zoonotic transmission. The objectives of this study were to determine the shedding of Salmonella by owned...

Salmonella enterica is a common cause of human food borne gastroenteritis and bacteremia worldwide. Salmonellosis is caused by different serotypes of salmonella; humans and animals are generally infected with these bacteria by the consumption of contaminated food products (1-3). Non-typhi salmonella gastroenteritis in contrast to the invasive salmonellosis that requires prompt antibiotic therap...

BACKGROUND Salmonella is an infectious agents causing numerous cases of illness each year, and thereby having significant economic impact. Using returning Swedish travellers we estimated the burden of salmonellosis in different European countries. METHODS From the Swedish database on notifiable communicable diseases 15,864 cases with travel-associated salmonellosis acquired in Europe from 199...

Reducing the burden of foodborne salmonellosis is challenging. It requires identification of the most important food sources causing disease and prioritization of effective intervention strategies. For this purpose, a variety of methods to estimate the relative contribution of different sources of Salmonella infections have been applied worldwide. Each has strengths and limitations, and the use...

Salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis and listeriosis are food-borne diseases. We estimated and forecasted the number of cases of these three diseases in Belgium from 2012 to 2020, and calculated the corresponding number of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The salmonellosis time series was fitted with a Bai and Perron two-breakpoint model, while a dynamic linear model was used for campylobac...