SALMONELLA (salmonellae)

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Irregular inflected form: salmonellae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does salmonella mean? 

• SALMONELLA (noun)
  The noun SALMONELLA has 1 sense:

1. rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

  Familiarity information: SALMONELLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALMONELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("salmonella" is a kind of...):

enteric bacteria; enterics; enterobacteria; entric (rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; most occur normally or pathogenically in intestines of humans and other animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salmonella"):

Gartner's bacillus; Salmonella enteritidis (a form of salmonella that causes gastroenteritis in humans)

Salmonella typhimurium (a form of salmonella that causes food poisoning in humans)

Salmonella typhi; Salmonella typhosa; typhoid bacillus (a form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever)

Holonyms ("salmonella" is a member of...):

genus Salmonella (a genus of bacteria)

 Context examples 

Salmonella is especially harmful in lower-income countries.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

Furazolidone is also active in treating typhoid fever, cholera and salmonella infections.

(Furazolidone, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include pneumococcal , streptococcal, salmonella and meningeal infections.

(Bacterial Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

However, the system would struggle with dangerous chemical pollution, like heavy metals and the more resistant waterborne pathogens such as cholera and salmonella

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)