Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria that causes typhoid fever, paratyphoid[?] and food poisoning. The best known species are probably Salmonella enterica[?], which has numerous strains or serovars, and Salmonella typhi. The former is frequently responsible for food poisoning.
References
TSN: 302
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi
The site http://www.ktl.fi/ttr/gen/mikrobiryhmat/1200.html has a long list of members of this genus but the text is in Finnish.
