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Salmonella bongori
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| Description | It is a Gram negative rod-shaped bacteria. Salmonella bongori is a pathogenic bacterium belonging to the genus Salmonella. All serovars belonging to S. bongori are monophasic for the H antigen. |
| Synonyms | Salmonella enterica subsp. bongori; Salmonella enterica subsp. V; Salmonella enterica V; Salmonella choleraesuis subsp. bongori; Salmonella cholerae-suis subsp. Bongori. |
| Habitat/Source | It was discovered in 1966 from a lizard in the city of Bongor, Chad, from which the specific name bongori was derived.It is typically considered a microbe of cold-blooded animals,unlike other members of the genus,and is most frequently associated with reptiles.Isolated mainly from cold-blooded animals and environment. |
| Pathogenicity | Salmonella bongori is the second species of Salmonella after Salmonella enterica and is considered a distant outgroup.This species is reptile-specific, is rarely found in human infections and it lacks SPI-2.It causes a gastrointestinal disease called salmonellosis, characterized by cramping and diarrhoea. |
| GenBank Accession | View Genome [NC_015761.1] |
| Size(Mb) | 4.46011 |
| GC% | 51.3 |
| Genes | 4191 |
| CDS | 4010 |
| Reference | (1) Michael W.Reeves , Gracia M.Evins , Anwar A. Heiba ,Brian D .Plikaytis and J.J .Farmer (1989) Clonal Nature of Salmonella typhi and Its Genetic Relatedness to Other Salmonellae as Shown by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis, and Proposal of Salmonella bongori comb. nov.., Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Feb. 1989, p. 313-320 .<./p> (2) Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology Edited by John G. Holt,The Williams & Wilkins Co.. |