Salmonella Typhi morphology
Salmonella is a rod-shaped bacteria , the toxins and produce mainly the gastrointestinal tract of infected humans and animals. They lead to the symptoms of typhoid fever ( Salmonella typhi , Salmonella paratyphi ).
Genus: Salmonella
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Diameter: 0.7 - 1.5 microns
Length: 2 - 5 microns
Gram-negative
active mobile
facultative anaerobes (organisms that are not dependent on oxygen for their metabolism)
Chemoorganotroph (extraction of energy from chemical reactions)
Do not form spores
Lysotypie
Salmonella are in the soil, on plants and in human or animal feces before. The reservoir of pathogens form animals and humans. Worldwide, there are a total of about 2,400 types of salmonella.
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