[mware]

tx save the jar your wife ate out of, they could determine if the jar was infected with the virus.

[xcamel]

That would be "bacteria"

[toothfairy86]

Salmonella isn't a virus, it's a type of bacteria.

[webheart]

they could determine if the jar was infected with the virus

Salmonella is a bacterium, not a virus.

[Old Professer]

From the Net:

Salmonella spp.

type:
bacteria

shape:
bacilli

gram stain:
negative

oxygen needs:
facultative anaerobe

motile:
usually

other:
---

found in/on:
intestinal tracts of cattle and poultry

normal flora:
no

diseases:
salmonellosis , typhoid fever (see S. typhi)

transmission:
???

other:
no individual Salmonella species are recognized---instead strains are divided into serovars (of which approximately 2000 are know) and then further into biovars ; family Enterobacteriaceae

history:
---

references:
pp. 186-187, Bergy's, 1994; pp. 87, 155, 156, 188-189, 200, 208, 254, 324, 617-618, 747, 763, 764, 770, Black, 1996