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Salmonella infection of animal hosts results, in general, from oral consumption of contaminated foods. It is therefore important to understand the series of events necessary for Salmonella to exist both outside and inside the host. We have set out to define biochemically and genetically the gene products necessary for S. typhimurium to traffic through the animal host and also to determine how S. typhimurium regulates the expression of these genes in response to the changing environmental niches occupied during transit through this infection pathway. Ultimately, information from such studies should be useful in the design and construction of attenuated Salmonella derivatives to use for immunization to prevent infection.
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Curtiss, R., Galán, J. (1991). Colonization of The Murine Gastrointestinal Tract by Salmonella typhimurium . In: Wadström, T., Mäkelä, P.H., Svennerholm, AM., Wolf-Watz, H. (eds) Molecular Pathogenesis of Gastrointestinal Infections. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5982-1_25
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