Which bacterial agent of acute diarrhea is most likely to result in bacteremia and distant ectopic foci of infection?
- Nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella are invasive and may lead to bacteremia after enteric infection.
- Among older patients, endocarditis or other septic foci of infection have been reported after salmonellosis.
- Salmonella infections, both typhoidal and nontyphoidal, are situations in which bacteremia is common but highest culture yield is from bone marrow aspirate.
