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Postgrad Med J 2004;80:541-545 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2003.016584
  • History of medicine

Salmonella: a continuing problem

  1. A Hardy
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr A Hardy
 Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, Euston House, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD, UK; a.hardyucl.ac.uk
  • Received 31 October 2003
  • Accepted 17 December 2003

Abstract

Salmonella was the archetypal food poisoning organism of the 20th century. It achieved a high public profile following the salmonella-in-eggs crisis of 1988–89, but by then had been the subject of public health concern and scientific interest for over a century. Early associated with animal foods, the advent of phage typing in the 1940s began to reveal the complexity of its environmental associations. This paper explores the story of salmonella as a continuing problem in epidemiology, microbiology and public health, in the food chain, and in the kitchen.

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