Salmonellosis


Statutory notification

Public health summary

  • Infectious agent: non typhoidal Salmonella bacteria.
  • Transmission: Faecal-oral, food-borne, water-borne and animal-person.
  • Incubation period: 6 hr to 7 days (usually 1 to 3 days).
  • Infectious period: Most infectious while symptomatic and low risk post recovery. Use contact transmission- based precautions for hospitalised and institutionalised patients.
  • Case exclusion: Until asymptomatic, including normal stools, for 24 hours. If patient works in health-care, aged-care, child-care or is a food handler or attends child-care exclude until asymptomatic, including normal stools, for 48 hours. See Guidelines for Exclusion of People with Enteric Diseases and their Contacts (PDF 764KB).
  • Contact exclusion: Guidelines for Exclusion of People with Enteric Diseases and their Contacts (PDF 764KB).
  • Treatment: Oral rehydration and as recommended by the doctor.
  • Immunisation: None available.
  • Case follow-up: Generally only clusters or outbreaks investigated, by the Communicable Disease Control Directorate with assistance from public health units (Healthy WA).

Guidelines for public health units

Notifiable disease data and reports

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