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This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute.

Summer's here, and with it come picnics, barbecues, and of course, salmonella. The germ is notorious

for contaminating a variety of favorite warm weather foods, but the bacteria's palate is more

limited than our own. Once salmonella makes its way into your system,

it relies on a single unusual nutrient to survive. That's according to a study in the journal

Plos pathogens. Most people tough it out when they get food poisoning from salmonella. That's

because treatment with antibiotics would eliminate the infection, but also wipe out the gut bacteria

that promote good health. To figure out how to target salmonella specifically, researchers screened for genes vital for

the microbes' survival during the active phase of infection, and they identified a cluster of

five genes that worked together to allow the bacteria to digest a molecule called fructose asparagine.

No other organisms are known to use this chemical for fuel, so starving

salmonella of it could be a new strategy for fighting this food-born bug while leaving desirable

intestinal inhabitants unharmed. Next, the researchers plan to see which foods contain large

amounts of salmonella's go-to snack. But please, don't send unsolicited samples of Aunt Agnes's

egg salad.

Thanks for the minute.

For Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkins.

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