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Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs
Salmonella outbreaks have been linked to a wide variety of foods, including recent nationwide outbreaks. Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cuy or cobayo, has long been a popular delicacy and ceremonial food in the Andean region in South America. This case report describes three family outb...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/864640 |
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author | Fournier, John B. Knox, Kimberly Harris, Maureen Newstein, Michael |
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description | Salmonella outbreaks have been linked to a wide variety of foods, including recent nationwide outbreaks. Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cuy or cobayo, has long been a popular delicacy and ceremonial food in the Andean region in South America. This case report describes three family outbreaks of nontyphoidal salmonellosis, each occurring after a meal of guinea pigs. We believe this case report is the first to describe a probable association between the consumption of guinea pig meat and human salmonellosis. Physicians should be aware of the association of Salmonella and the consumption of guinea pigs, given the increasing immigration of people from the Andean region of South America and the increasing travel to this region. |
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spelling | pubmed-43637142015-03-29 Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs Fournier, John B. Knox, Kimberly Harris, Maureen Newstein, Michael Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Salmonella outbreaks have been linked to a wide variety of foods, including recent nationwide outbreaks. Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cuy or cobayo, has long been a popular delicacy and ceremonial food in the Andean region in South America. This case report describes three family outbreaks of nontyphoidal salmonellosis, each occurring after a meal of guinea pigs. We believe this case report is the first to describe a probable association between the consumption of guinea pig meat and human salmonellosis. Physicians should be aware of the association of Salmonella and the consumption of guinea pigs, given the increasing immigration of people from the Andean region of South America and the increasing travel to this region. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4363714/ /pubmed/25821613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/864640 Text en Copyright © 2015 John B. Fournier et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Fournier, John B. Knox, Kimberly Harris, Maureen Newstein, Michael Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title | Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title_full | Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title_fullStr | Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title_full_unstemmed | Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title_short | Family Outbreaks of Nontyphoidal Salmonellosis following a Meal of Guinea Pigs |
title_sort | family outbreaks of nontyphoidal salmonellosis following a meal of guinea pigs |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25821613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/864640 |
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