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Salmonella is a bacteria that causes food poisoning and typhoid fever, or the type of food poisoning caused by this bacteria. (noun)

When you touch raw chicken and get bacteria on your hands from it that makes you very ill, the bacteria is an example ofsalmonella.

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noun pl. salmonellae , salmonella, salmonellas

any of a genus (Salmonella) of Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria that cause various diseases in people and domestic animals, including typhoid fever and food poisoning

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(sălˌmə-nĕlˈə)

noun pl. sal·mo·nel·lae (-nĕlˈē) or sal·mo·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.

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