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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2] Jolanta Marszalek, M.D. [3]

Overview

Salmonella is a rod-shaped, facultative intracellular, gram-negative enterobacteria.[1] Salmonella species shows motility, produces hydrogen sulfide, and only 1% is able to ferment lactose.[2] It may be isolated from the stool of infected patients, and grown in culture media, such as MacConkey agar and deoxycholate agar. Salmonella enters the body through contaminated food or water, and invades the intestinal epithelial cells, causing inflammation.

This bacterium may be classified into 2 different species: Salmonella enterica and Salmonella bongori. Salmonella enterica is divided in 6 different subspecies, of which I, contains most pathogenic serotypes for humans. Salmonella may be serogrouped into more than 2500 serovars with polyvalent antisera, according to the capsular antigen, polysaccharide O antigens, and flagellar antigens. The bacteria show tropism for the epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal tract, macrophages, dendritic cells, and neutrophils. Different serotypes of Salmonella may have different natural reservoirs, some have humans as their only natural reservoir (serotypes Sendai and Typhi), while others (serotype Dublin) may infect humans and cattle.

Taxonomy

Cellular organism; Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacteriales; Enterobacteriaceae[3]

Biology

Computer-generated image of three drug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteria. Adapted from Public Health Image Library (PHIL), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[4]
Colonial growth pattern displayed by Salmonella enterica subsp. arizonae, formerly Salmonella choleraesuis and Arizona hinshawii bacteria grown on a blood agar culture plate Adapted from Public Health Image Library (PHIL), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[4]

Salmonella is a gram-negative, facultative intracellular, anaerobic, non-spore-forming bacillum. It measures 2 to 3 by 0.4 to 0.6 μm. Salmonella is a non-lactose fermenting bacterium. It reduces nitrates, produces acid on glucose fermentation and does not produce cytochrome oxidase.[5] Due to the presence of flagella, almost all salmonella species are motile. 1% of the bacteria is able to ferment lactose, which may be responsible for its non-detection in some culture media.

For the isolation of salmonella in culture, freshly passed stool are preferred. Common media for the growth of salmonella include: MacConkey agar, deoxycholate agar, and xylose-lysine-deoxycholate agar.[6]

When the sample has a low number of bacteria, special enrichment broths, such as the selenite-based enrichment broth, may be used to raise the number of bacteria.[6]

Infectious Cycle

Salmonella enterica enters the body through the mouth, by ingestion of contaminated food and water. For the bacteria to cause disease, an inoculum of about 50 000 pathogens is often required. Once in the intestine, the bacteria will first infect the apical epithelium. Salmonella will then initiate bacterial mechanisms that allow invasion of the host cells, inducing inflammatory changes, such as:[7][8][9][10]

Different serovars will have different preferable intestinal locations. An example is the enterocolitis at the terminal ileum, cecum, and proximal colon caused by serovar Typhimurium. Intestinal disease is marked by neutrophil migration to the intestinal epithelium. This recruitment is done by the secretion of interleukin-8, induced by Salmonella.[11]

Classification

Before 1983 Salmonella was classified in several species. However, its genome study has shown high levels of DNA similarities among different types of salmonella, which leads to the actual classification of salmonella in 2 different species:

Salmonella enterica

  • Contains six subspecies - I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IV, and VI:[12][13]
    • I - enterica
    • II - salamae
    • III - arizonae
    • IIIb - diarizonae
    • IV - houtenae
    • VI - indica
  • Subspecies I contains most pathogenic serotypes for humans
  • Subspecies IIIa and IIIb, formerly belonging to the genus Arizonae, are responsible for rare human infections

Salmonella bongori

Serovars

Salmonella subspecies may be serogrouped into more than 2500 serovars with polyvalent antisera. For this division the following bacterial structures are considered:[15]

Different salmonella serotypes may also be distinguished in culture, according to their different metabolism of sugars.[16] Different serovars also may have different disease manifestations. For example, Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhimurium is the causative agent of typhoid fever, and is not associated with classical salmonellosis.

Tropism

In vitro, Salmonella is able to interact with different types of cells. However, in vivo, the bacteria was found to enter only certain human cells, namely:[17]

Natural Reservoir

Different salmonella serovars may have different natural reservoirs. Common types of serovars of salmonella enterica that infect the human gastrointestinal tract include serovars Sendai, Typhi, and Paratyphi. Humans are their only natural reservoir. Other serotypes, such as serotype Dublin, have cattle as their natural reservoir, but has also the capacity to cause infection in humans.[18][19]

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References

  1. ↑ Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed. ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9.
  2. ↑ Giannella RA (1996). "Salmonella". In Baron S et al (eds.). Baron's Medical Microbiology (4th ed. ed.). Univ of Texas Medical Branch. ISBN 0-9631172-1-1.
  3. ↑ "Salmonella (Taxonomy)".
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Public Health Image Library (PHIL), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention".
  5. ↑ Mandell, Gerald (2010). Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier. ISBN 0443068399.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Perez, J. M.; Cavalli, P.; Roure, C.; Renac, R.; Gille, Y.; Freydiere, A. M. (2003). "Comparison of Four Chromogenic Media and Hektoen Agar for Detection and Presumptive Identification of Salmonella Strains in Human Stools". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 41 (3): 1130–1134. doi:10.1128/JCM.41.3.1130-1134.2003. ISSN 0095-1137.
  7. ↑ McGovern VJ, Slavutin LJ (1979). "Pathology of salmonella colitis". Am J Surg Pathol. 3 (6): 483–90. PMID 534385.
  8. ↑ Giannella RA, Formal SB, Dammin GJ, Collins H (1973). "Pathogenesis of salmonellosis. Studies of fluid secretion, mucosal invasion, and morphologic reaction in the rabbit ileum". J Clin Invest. 52 (2): 441–53. doi:10.1172/JCI107201. PMC 302274. PMID 4630603.
  9. ↑ Clarke RC, Gyles CL (1987). "Virulence of wild and mutant strains of Salmonella typhimurium in ligated intestinal segments of calves, pigs, and rabbits". Am J Vet Res. 48 (3): 504–10. PMID 3551701.
  10. ↑ Finlay BB, Heffron F, Falkow S (1989). "Epithelial cell surfaces induce Salmonella proteins required for bacterial adherence and invasion". Science. 243 (4893): 940–3. PMID 2919285.
  11. ↑ McCormick BA, Colgan SP, Delp-Archer C, Miller SI, Madara JL (1993). "Salmonella typhimurium attachment to human intestinal epithelial monolayers: transcellular signalling to subepithelial neutrophils". J Cell Biol. 123 (4): 895–907. PMC 2200157. PMID 8227148.
  12. ↑ "The type species of the genus Salmonella Lignieres 1900 is Salmonella enterica (ex Kauffmann and Edwards 1952) Le Minor and Popoff 1987, with the type strain LT2T, and conservation of the epithet enterica in Salmonella enterica over all earlier epithets that may be applied to this species. Opinion 80". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 55 (Pt 1): 519–20. 2005. PMID 15653929.
  13. ↑ Tindall BJ; Grimont PAD, Garrity GM; Euzéby JP (2005). "Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Salmonella". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 55: 521&ndash, 524. PMID 15653930.
  14. ↑ Popoff MY, Bockemühl J, Gheesling LL (2004). "Supplement 2002 (no. 46) to the Kauffmann-White scheme". Res Microbiol. 155 (7): 568–70. doi:10.1016/j.resmic.2004.04.005. PMID 15313257.
  15. ↑ Murray, Patrick (2013). Medical microbiology. Philadelphia: Elsevier/Saunders. ISBN 0323086926.
  16. ↑ Mandell, Gerald (2010). Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier. ISBN 0443068399.
  17. ↑ Santos RL, Bäumler AJ (2004). "Cell tropism of Salmonella enterica". Int J Med Microbiol. 294 (4): 225–33. doi:10.1016/j.ijmm.2004.06.029. PMID 15532980.
  18. ↑ Mandell, Gerald (2010). Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases. Philadelphia, PA: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier. ISBN 0443068399.
  19. ↑ "Salmonella enterica Serotypes and Food Commodities, United States, 1998–2008".

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