About Salmonella
★ General Information
gram-negative bacilli.
★ Disease
S. typhimurium: a leading cause of human gastroenteritis, and is used as a mouse model of human typhoid fever.
S. typhi: a human-specific pathogen causing the systemic febrile illness typhoid fever.
★ Lineage
Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Enterobacterales; Enterobacteriaceae; Salmonella
★ Taxonomy ID
590