n., pl., -nel·lae (-nĕl'ē), or -nel·las, or salmonella.
Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.
[New Latin Salmonella, genus name, after Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914), American pathologist.]
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