Infants who drink formula and ride in shopping carts at greater risk for Salmonella infection: NewsTarget.com

A study published in the December 2006 issue of the journal Pediatrics found that infants who are placed in certain circumstances -- such as riding in grocery store shopping carts or being exposed to reptiles -- are at greater risk of Salmonella infection.

The study -- led by Dr. Timothy F. Jones of the Tennessee Department of Health in Nashville -- compared the dietary and environmental exposure of 442 infants who had been infected with Salmonella with those of 928 age-matched controls who had not been infected. The researchers examined the children's exposures in the five days prior to infection.

"Compared with healthy controls, infants with Salmonella infection were less likely to have been breastfed and more likely to have had exposure to reptiles, to have ridden in a shopping cart next to meat or poultry, or to have consumed concentrated liquid infant formula during the 5-day exposure period," researchers wrote.

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