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Infection of mice by Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis involves additional genes that are absent in the genome of serovar Typhimurium.
Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 2012
Silva Cecilia A, Blondel Carlos J, Quezada Carolina P, Porwollik Steffen, Andrews-Polymenis Helene L, Toro Cecilia S, Zaldívar Mercedes, Contreras Inés, McClelland Michael, Santiviago Carlos A
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis causes a systemic, typhoid-like infection in newly hatched poultry and mice. In the present study, a library of 54,000 transposon mutants of S. Enteritidis phage type 4 (PT4) strain P125109 was screened for mutants deficient in the in vivo colonization of the BALB/c mouse model using a microarray-based negative-selection screening. Mutants in genes known to contribute to...
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