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Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum requires the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system but not the Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 type III secretion system for virulence in chickens.
Infection and immunity - 1 Sept 2001
Jones M A, Wigley P, Page K L, Hulme S D, Barrow P A
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum is a host-specific serotype that causes the severe systemic disease fowl typhoid in domestic poultry and a narrow range of other avian species but rarely causes disease in mammalian hosts. Specificity of the disease is primarily at the level of the reticuloendothelial system, but few virulence factors have been described other than the requirement for an 85-kb virulence...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cells, Cultured
- Chickens
- Macrophages
- Mutation
- Poultry Diseases
- Salmonella Infections, Animal
- Salmonella enterica
- Virulence