Several cases of nonbloody diarrhea with nausea, fever, and abdominal pain have occurred among a number of people who ate at the same restaurant. Public health officers find a food sample containing motile noncoliform, Gram- negative bacteria capable of metabolizing glucose. The "food poisoning" resulted from contamination with
A) Shigella.
B) Yersinia.
C) Citrobacter.
D) Salmonella.
E) Escherichia coli.

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Salmonella is a motile, noncoliform, Gram-negative bacterium that can cause nonbloody diarrhea, nausea, fever, and abdominal pain, often associated with foodborne outbreaks.

Several Cases of Nonbloody Diarrhea with Nausea, Fever, and Abdominal