For those of you who heard about or helped try to answer the question of how salmonella saint paul got its name, Michelle Brasure was able to get an answer from the Minnesota Department of Health Library. The answer to the question is shown below:
From: "Paul Dahl"
To:
Subject: Re: salmonella saintpaul
Billie Juni from the Public Health Lab contacted the CDC and got the following regarding Salmonella SaintPaul.
Matt Mikoleit in the Salmonella Reference Lab (CDC) commented:
Salmonella SaintPaul was first identified in the late 1940s or early 1950s from birds in Litchfield, MN by Dr. B. Pomeroy of the U of M Vet School. Because Salmonella Litchfield already existed, it was named for the location of the vet school.
Posted by biomedref at July 3, 2008 08:24 AM