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(sal′mō·nel′ə) noun
A genus of aerobic, rodlike, preponderantly motile bacteria capable of fermenting certain carbohydrates with the formation of acid and gas; especially, S. paratyphi, which causes a form of paratyphoid in man. [<NL, after Daniel Elmer Salmon, U.S. pathologist, 1850–1914]
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