A 3-year retrospective review of 132 patients with Salmonella enterocolitis admitted to a regional infectious diseases unit.

Over a 3-year-period, 132 patients were admitted to the Infectious Diseases Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, with non-typhoidal salmonellae enterocolitis. Salmonella enteritidis and typhimurium were isolated from 67% of admissions. Of all patients, 11% had recently travelled overseas, 12% were hypochlorhydric and 3.8% were bacteraemic. Salmonella typhimurium infection was associated with a younger age group, a more pronounced leucocytosis and an earlier and less marked summer peak than S. enteritidis.