Slide 1Chattanooga-Hamilton County Epidemiology Department Slide 2 Gram-negative bacilli Humans only reservoir Contaminated food/water or person to person Incubation 7-14…
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Slide 1Salmonella typhi On 6 th June 2010 S. typhi [causes typhoid] was ablated by RF in sheep blood. For the first time a moving bacterial target has been selectively killed…
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