Salmonella Alachua, a New Serotype

Abstract

An antibiotic produced by Streptomyces cinnaet al., J. Antibiotics (Japan), 5, 567, 1952). monensis and effective in vitro against Myco-Chemical and physical properties indicate that bacterium tuberculosis has been isolated (Maeda this antibiotic is perhaps identical to the thia-

Salmonella Alachua: causative agent of a foodborne disease outbreak

“…Salmonella Alachua was first described in 1952, during a study of the effects of salmonellosis in pigs in the city of Alachua, Florida, where it was isolated in a soil sample from a pig farm. 8 However, the first reported isolation in animals was in 1955 after several outbreaks of enteritis in chickens from different farms in Bombay, India, that resulted in a considerable loss of birds. 9 Since then, isolation has proved uncommon worldwide, as it is found in human and non-human samples at a rate of from 0.03 to 3.8%.…”