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Three previously healthy children developed gastroenteritis which led within a few days to systemic infections, two cases of bacteremia and one of meningitis. A lactose-fermentingSalmonella virchow strain was isolated from cerebrospinal fluid and blood cultures. In one case, this strain was also isolated from stool cultures. All the children had been fed the same milk formula. There was no other relationship between them. The batch of dried-milk formula was confirmed as the source of the infection by isolation of an identical lactose-fermentingSalmonella virchow strain by the Centro Nacional de Alimentación.
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Ruiz, J., Núñez, M.L., Sempere, M.A. et al. Systemic infections in three infants due to a lactose-fermenting strain ofSalmonella virchow . Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14, 454–456 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02114905
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