[Infection with "enteritis salmonella" at non-intestinal sites (author's transl)]

So-called "enteritis Salmonella" was isolated in five cases from extra-intestinal specimens (about 3% of all primary Salmonella isolations in one year). The organisms were: S. typhimurium, S. enteritidis, S. java, S. panama, and S. infantis. In four of the five cases the clinical picture was not that of a Salmonella infection. Focal manifestations were a knee-joint empyema after long-term treatment with glucocorticoids, pleuritis in Hodgkin's disease, osteomyelitis of the head of the tibia, and meningitis in a child. In a 72-year-old man, acute renal failure occurred after enteritis, following which the Salmonella was isolated from the respiratory tract for many weeks.