Hospital Outbreak of Infections withSalmonella newington

Abstract

CASES of infection with Salmonella newington were found with unusual frequency at the Boston City Hospital during the latter part of 1949 and early in 1950. A survey of the records of the bacteriological laboratory of this hospital¶ revealed that strains of this type of salmonella had been isolated from 57 persons during the eighteen-month period between November, 1948, and April, 1950, but had not previously been encountered for several years. In view of the relative infrequency of infections in man with S. newington^{,1 , 2} and because the cases from which the strains were isolated were found over so long . . .