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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