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Salmonellosis should be differentiated from other pathogens that lead to acute inflammatory diarrhea:^[1]

Pathogen	Transmission	Clinical Manifestations
Pathogen	Transmission	Fever	Nausea/Vomiting	Abdominal Pain	Bloody Stool
Salmonella	Outbreaks due to foodborne transmission, community-acquired	++	+	++	+
Shigella	Community-acquired, person-to-person	++	++	++	+
Campylobacter	Community-acquired, ingestion of undercooked poultry	++	+	++	+
E. coli (EHEC or EIEC)	Foodborne transmission, ingestion of undercooked hamburger meat	±	+	++	++
Clostridium difficile	Nosocomial spread, antibiotic use	+	±	+	+
Yersinia	Community-aquired, foodborne transmission	++	+	++	+
Entamoeba histolytica	Travel to or emigration from tropical regions	+	±	+	±
Aeromonas		+	+	+	+
Plesiomonas	Travel to tropical regions, ingestion of raw or undercooked shellfish	+	+	+	+

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 ==Differentiating Salmonellosis from Other Diseases==
-Salmonellosis should be differentiated from other pathogens that lead to acute inflammatory diarrhea:
+Salmonellosis should be differentiated from other pathogens that lead to acute inflammatory diarrhea:<ref name="pmid14702426">{{cite journal| author=Thielman NM, Guerrant RL| title=Clinical practice. Acute infectious diarrhea. | journal=N Engl J Med | year= 2004 | volume= 350 | issue= 1 | pages= 38-47 | pmid=14702426 | doi=10.1056/NEJMcp031534 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=14702426  }} </ref>
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+==References==
+{{reflist|2}}