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Can salmonella be cured and is it a really bad bacteria?
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Yes and Yes: Antimicrobials when used appropriately can be useful in salmonellosis but in small children, the elderly and immune suppressed people it can be deadly. Typhoid is a kind of salmonella which can also be deadly.
Answered 3/20/2018
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