<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>any of several rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacteria of the genus <em>Salmonella</em>, as <em>S. typhosa</em>, that may enter the digestive tract of humans and other mammals in contaminated food and cause abdominal pains and violent diarrhea.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>