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Report of a Case of Salmonella Bronchopneumonia and Fourteen Cases of Interstitial Pneumonia

ALFRED P. INGEGNO, M.D.; JOHN B. D'ALBORA, M.D.; JOHN N. EDSON, M.D.; PETER J. GIANQUINTO, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1948;81(4):476-484.

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In A RECENT report¹ of an outbreak of food poisoning due to Salmonella montevideo in an army general hospital in North Ireland note was made of bronchopulmonary involvement in 19 (6 per cent) of the 350 persons affected. One of the patients had frank bronchopneumonia, with sputum which contained the Salmonella organism. Others had interstitial pneumonia, and their sputum did not contain the organism. The cases in which there were respiratory manifestations are given more detailed consideration in the present communication.

The outbreak affected 350 persons in a three day period from April 11 to 14, 1944. The immediate source of infection was rice pudding allowed to stand at kitchen temperature for twelve hours or more, and the evidence indicated that the cook who prepared the pudding was a carrier of the organism. Besides the aforementioned bronchopulmonary changes, the clinical manifestations included pronounced gastrointestinal upset, severe prostration and toxicity, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Long Island College of Medicine; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Long Island College of Medicine; Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, Long Island College of Medicine BROOKLYN; NEWARK, N. J.

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