Eric W Brown, Rebecca Bell, Guodong Zhang, Ruth Timme, Jie Zheng, Thomas S Hammack, Marc W Allard
The species Salmonella enterica comprises over 2,600 serovars, many of which are known to be intracellular pathogens of mammals, birds, and reptiles. It is now apparent that Salmonella is a highly adapted environmental microbe and can readily persist in a number of environmental niches, including water, soil, and various plant (including produce) species. Much of what is known about the evolution and diversity of nontyphoidal Salmonella serovars (NTS) in the environment is the result of the rise of the genomics era in enteric microbiology...
June 14, 2021: EcoSal Plus