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Infection of Plants by the Human Pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium: Challenges and New Insights

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Biocommunication of Plants

Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants ((SIGCOMM,volume 14))

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Salmonella are the causative agents of the majority of food-borne bacterial poisonings and are responsible for more than 100 million infections of humans annually. In contrast to typhoid and paratyphoid fever, salmonellosis is frequent in the developed world. This is largely contributed by changes in the nutritional behavior resulting in eating more fruits and raw vegetables. Recently, it was discovered that the colonization of plants by Salmonella is a highly organized process. These results indicate that plants form part of the natural life cycle of Salmonella and open up new strategies to understand and combat bacterial diseases.

Adam Schikora and Ana Victoria Garcia contributed equally to the work.

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The work was supported from grants of the ERANET Systems Biology project SHIPREC (Salmonella Host Interaction Project European Consortium)

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  1. Institute for Plant Pathology and Applied Zoology, IFZ, JL University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Adam Schikora

  2. URGV Plant Genomics, INRA/CNRS/University of Evry, Evry, France

    Ana Victoria Garcia, Amélie Charrier & Heribert Hirt

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Schikora, A., Garcia, A.V., Charrier, A., Hirt, H. (2012). Infection of Plants by the Human Pathogen Salmonella Typhimurium: Challenges and New Insights. In: Witzany, G., Baluška, F. (eds) Biocommunication of Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23524-5_18

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