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    More microbes

Hi, my name is /Salmonella typhi/ and I am a lot of fun!

I am a strain of the species /Salmonella enterica/, along with another
2000 strains. But out of all of us, I am definitely the best at what I
do. See, I like to cause a wicked disease in humans known as typhoid fever.

I like to infect people via the fecal-oral route. I am ingested in food
or water which is contaminated with the waste of infected people.
Travelers like to catch me by not taking care of what they eat or drink
when on holiday.

Once in the body, I multiply in the blood and all the fun starts. A
fever of 104°F, severe sweating, stomach pain and diarrhea. The diarrhea
look and smell pretty too - a bit like pea soup really. I can only live
in humans so its really important for my species' survival that I make
sure I spread to as many people as possible. That means causing my
sufferers to produce as much infectious diarrhea as possible. Of course,
that means that dehydration is a massive problem in my victims as they
lose so much water.

I kill up to 30% of those infected if not treated, but antibiotics
reduce my fatality rates to 1%. I am particularly keen on the developing
world, and infect 21.5 million people a year. Just imagine how much
diarrhea that is! Some people can carry me without any symptoms and
spread me to others. Typhoid Mary was the most famous carrier of my
kind. She was a cook who infected nearly 50 people yet still refused to
admit that she was responsible for their illnesses and deaths.

S. enterica Typhimurium colonies on an agar plate

 

 

 

 

 

	
<germstories.htm>'Germ Stories' by Arthur Kornberg brings the world of
microbes to life. You can read a review of this book here <germstories.htm>

<agar_art.htm> NEW!Agar Art <agar_art.htm> - Works of art created on
petri dishes with bacteria and fungi!

About Bacteria
What do bacteria look like? <bacteriashape.htm>
Inside the bacterial cell <bacterialcell.htm>

The Good Guys
/Escherichia coli/ <ecoli.htm>/
Bacillus subtilis <spore.htm> /

The Bad Boys
/Mycobacterium tuberculosis/ <tuberculosis.htm>/
MRSA <mrsa.htm>
/Black death <black.htm>/
Porphyromonas gingivalis <porphyromonas.htm>
Chlamydia trachomatis <chlamydia.htm>
Salmonella typhi <salmonella.htm>
Treponema pallidum <treponema.htm>
Proteus mirabilis <proteusmirabilis.htm>
Streptococcus pyogenes <streptococcus.htm>
Neisseria gonorrhoeae <neisseria.htm>
Helicobacter pylori <helicobacter.htm>
Mycobacterium leprae <leprae.htm>
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