Intestinal cells starve Salmonella of essential nutrients, revealing new tactic in infection defense

Salmonella, an infection that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain, is the most common form of bacterial food poisoning in the U.S., sickening more than a million people each year. Although most healthy people recover without medical treatment, Salmonella infection can spread throughout the body in young children, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals and become life-threatening.