Sumary of Salmonellosis: what it is, how it is contracted and what are the symptoms:
Is the taste of food altered in the presence of salmonella?
It is the latter that are responsible for more than 50% of the total gastrointestinal infections and are the most frequent cause of food poisoning.
What should be emphasized, however, is that, more often than not, salmonellosis does not imply serious consequences for health.
“No, usually food contaminated with salmonella does not show any alteration of the organoleptic characteristics – explains Professor Pregliasco
Reported for the first time in 1886, in a case of swine fever, by the American doctor Daniel Elmer Salmon, salmonella is present in nature with more than 2000 variants (the so-called serotypes) even if the most common strains in humans and animal species, they are S.
«They can be very different even in epidemic situations – the virologist explains – also depends a lot on the bacterial load and on the serotype which can be more or less virulent.
In general, however, we can say that it is gastroenteritis with nausea, crampy abdominal pain and diarrhea, sometimes even bloody.
