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Evaluation of pathogenicity of Salmonella Gallinarum strains harbouring deletions in genes whose orthologues are conserved pseudogenes in S. Pullorum.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Alves Batista Diego Felipe, de Freitas Neto Oliveiro Caetano, Maria de Almeida Adriana, Maboni Grazieli, de Carvalho Tatiane Furtado, de Carvalho Thaynara Parente, Barrow Paul Andrew, Berchieri Angelo
Abstract excerpt
The diseases caused by Salmonella Gallinarum and S. Pullorum in chickens known as fowl typhoid and pullorum disease, respectively, pose a great threat to the poultry industry mainly in developing countries, since they have already been controlled in the developed ones. These bacteria are very similar at the genomic level but develop distinct host-pathogen relationships with chickens. Therefore, a deep...
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