Definition of "salmonella" []

• Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals. (noun)

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• "Even eggs should be washed as the salmonella is also on the outside of the egg as well as the inside."
• "Because salmonella is seldom distributed evenly in any lot of beef, "94% of the time, I won't find it even though it's there," Marsden says of testing."
• "I have heard that salmonella is a lot more common in the modern US than at other times and places due to industrial farming conditions and whatnot."