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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 30 2016, @09:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-before-having-the-chicken-tartar dept.

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed a vaccine against salmonella poisoning designed to be taken by mouth. The findings are detailed in an article published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

In earlier studies, the UTMB researchers developed potential vaccines from three genetically mutated versions of the salmonella bacteria, that is Salmonella Typhimurium, that were shown to protect mice against a lethal dose of salmonella. In these studies, the vaccines were given as an injection.

[...] There is no vaccine currently available for salmonella poisoning. Antibiotics are the first choice in treating salmonella infections, but the fact that some strains of salmonella are quickly developing antibiotic resistance is a serious concern. Another dangerous aspect of salmonella is that it can be used as a bioweapon -- this happened in Oregon when a religious cult intentionally contaminated restaurant salad bars and sickened 1,000 people.

[...] Salmonella is responsible for one of the most common food-borne illnesses in the world. In the US alone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are about 1.4 million cases with 15,000 hospitalizations and 400 deaths each year. It is thought that for every reported case, there are approximately 39 undiagnosed infections. Overall, the number of salmonella cases in the US has not changed since 1996.

Tatiana E. Erova, et al. Protective Immunity Elicited by Oral Immunization of Mice with Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Braun Lipoprotein (Lpp) and Acetyltransferase (MsbB) Mutants. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2016; 6 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00148


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @11:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @11:47PM (#447655)

    According to America's Test Kitchen, ~1/10000 supermarket eggs is contaminated with salmonella.
    Rocky would get exposed to one every 3-4 years at 8 per day, but he probably wouldn't get sick due to the fact that he eats lightning and craps thunder.

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