🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

salmonela

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sawmoˈnɛlɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Salmonella/ˌsæl.məˈnel.ə/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Os sintomas da salmonela incluem febre e cólicas abdominais."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A bacterium that occurs mainly in the intestine, especially a serotype causing food poisoning.

    "Eating undercooked poultry can lead to a severe infection of salmonella."
  2. 2

    An infectious disease characterized by severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, and fever, transmitted by contaminated food.

    "The health department traced the outbreak of salmonella to a local restaurant."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Named after Daniel Elmer Salmon, an American veterinary pathologist who administered the research. The genus name was coined in the late 19th century to describe the bacterium discovered by Salmon's assistant Theobald Smith in 1885.

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