66 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 134 
Salmonella sp. (Type Newport) 
Synonymy.— Salmonella newport. 
Disease —Food poisoning in man. Widely distributed in man, 
cattle, hogs, chickens, snakes. 
Natural vectors—Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Eads et al., 
1954): Organism isolated from cockroaches captured in sewer man- 
holes. 
Salmonella sp. (Type Oranienburg) 
Synonymy.—Salmonella oranienburg. 
Disease.—Gastroenteritis in man. Also from chickens, quail, pow- 
dered eggs, hogs. 
Natural vectors —Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Bitter and Wil- 
liams, 1949, 1949a) : Organism isolated from intestinal tracts of two 
cockroaches captured either at sewer manholes or in a private home. 
U.S.A. (Eads et al., 1954): Organism isolated from cockroaches 
captured in sewer manholes. 
Experimental vectors—Blatta orientalis, Blattella germanica, and 
Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Olson and Rueger, 1950): From 
fecal isolations, the organism was found to survive for 20 days in 
B. orientalis, 12 days in B. germanica, and 10 days in P. americana. 
However, the oriental cockroach was positive (post mortem examina- 
tion) 42 days after an experimental feeding, even though the feces 
were contaminated only during the first 20 days. The Salmonella 
remained viable on the pronotal surface of P. americana for as long 
as 78 days. Fecal pellets from an experimental American cockroach 
remained infective 199 days. In a recent letter, Dr. Olson informed 
us that S. oranienburg had survived in feces of P. americana for 4 
years and 115 days. 
Salmonella sp. (Type Panama) 
Synonymy.—Salmonella panama. 
Disease.—Human food poisoning. Habitat: Widely distributed ; 
found in reptiles, hogs, chickens, as well as man. 
Natural vectors—Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Eads et al., 
1954): Organism isolated from cockroaches captured in sewer man- 
holes. 
Salmonella sp. (Type Rubislaw) 
Synonymy.—Salmonella rubislaw. 
Disease.—Enteritis in child. Also found in snakes. 
Natural vectors.—Periplaneta americana, U.S.A. (Eads et al., 
