PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A Hardy
TI  - Salmonella: a continuing problem
AID  - 10.1136/pgmj.2003.016584
DP  - 2004 Sep 01
TA  - Postgraduate Medical Journal
PG  - 541--545
VI  - 80
IP  - 947
4099  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/80/947/541.short
4100  - http://pmj.bmj.com/content/80/947/541.full
SO  - Postgrad Med J2004 Sep 01; 80
AB  - 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.