Table Of ContentSALMONELLA –
A DIVERSIFIED SUPERBUG
Edited by Yashwant Kumar
Salmonella – A Diversified Superbug
Edited by Yashwant Kumar
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Contents
Preface XI
Part 1 Environmental Interactions 1
Chapter 1 Invasion and Survival of Salmonella in the
Environment: The Role of Biofilms 3
Cynthia L. Sheffield and Tawni L. Crippen
Chapter 2 Motility and Energy Taxis of Salmonella spp. 29
Andreas E. Zautner
Chapter 3 Influence of a Salt Water Regulator on
the Survival Response of Salmonella Paratyphi
in Vembanadu Lake: India 47
Chandran Abhirosh, Asit Mazumder, Sherin Varghese,
A.P Thomas and A.A.M Hatha
Part 2 Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 63
Chapter 4 Antibiotic Resistance and the Prospects of
Medicinal Plants in the Treatment
of Salmonellosis 65
A.A. Aliero and A.D. Ibrahim
Chapter 5 Antibiotic Susceptibility Patterns of
Salmonella Typhi in Jakarta and
Surrounding Areas 91
Lucky H. Moehario, Enty Tjoa,
Veronica N. K. D. Kalay and Angela Abidin
Chapter 6 Salmonellas Antibiotic Sensibility and Resistance;
The Sensitivity to Herb Extracts and
New Synthesize Compounds 99
Birol Özkalp
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Chapter 7 Xylariaceae Endophytic Fungi Metabolites
Against Salmonella 119
Fernanda Pinheiro de Carvalho Ribeiro,
Fernanda Carolina Sousa Fonseca, Isabella Alves Reis,
Isabella Santos Araújo, Hélio Mitoshi Kamida,
Alexsandro Branco and Ana Paula Trovatti Uetanabaro
Chapter 8 Nanotechnology Tools for Efficient Antibacterial
Delivery to Salmonella 139
Ali Nokhodchi, Taravat Ghafourian and Ghobad Mohammadi
Chapter 9 Mexican Plants Used in the Salmonellosis Treatment 169
Daniel Arrieta-Baez, Rosario Ruiz de Esparza
and Manuel Jiménez-Estrada
Chapter 10 Effect of Sanitizers and Oregano Essential Oils
to Reduce the Incidence of Salmonella and
Other Pathogens in Vegetables 185
Saul Ruiz-Cruz, Gustavo A. González-Aguilar,
José de Jesús Ornelas-Paz, Luis A. Cira-Chávez
and J. Fernando Ayala-Zavala
Chapter 11 Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella:
A Risk for Tropical Aquaculture 195
Renata Albuquerque Costa, Fátima Cristiane Teles de Carvalho
and Regine Helena Silva dos Fernandes Vieira
Part 3 Genetics 207
Chapter 12 Reticulate Evolution Among the Group I Salmonellae:
An Ongoing Role for Horizontal Gene Transfer 209
Eric W. Brown, Rebecca L. Bell, Marc W. Allard, Narjol Gonzalez-
Escalona, Andrei Perlloni, Joseph E. LeClerc and Thomas A. Cebula
Chapter 13 The Importance of Mobile Genetic Elements in
the Evolution of Salmonella: Pathogenesis,
Antibiotic Resistance and Host Adaptation 231
Claudia Silva, Magdalena Wiesner and Edmundo Calva
Chapter 14 Salmonella as a Unique Tool for Genetic Toxicology 255
Mehmet Karadayı, Özlem Barış and Medine Güllüce
Part 4 Immunology 277
Chapter 15 Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis (SE) Infection
in Chickens and Its Public-Health-Risk Control
Using an SE Vaccine in Layer Flocks 279
Hiroaki Ohta and Yukiko Toyota-Hanatani
Contents VII
Chapter 16 Salmonella as Live Carrier of Antigens
in Vaccine Development 309
César Gonzalez Bonilla, Ericka Pompa Mera,
Alberto Diaz Quiñonez and Sara Huerta Yepez
Chapter 17 Neutrophil Cellular Responses to Various
Salmonella typhimurium LPS Chemotypes 327
Anna N. Zagryazhskaya, Svetlana I. Galkina,
Zoryana V. Grishina, Galina M. Viryasova,
Julia M. Romanova, Michail I. Lazarenko,
Dieter Steinhilber and Galina F. Sud’ina
Chapter 18 Use of Isolation and Antibody Detection
for Salmonella Assessment 351
Marina Štukelj, Vojka Bole-Hribovšek,
Jasna Mićunović and Zdravko Valenčak
Chapter 19 The Central Nervous System Modulates
the Immune Response to Salmonella 375
Rafael Campos-Rodríguez, Andres Quintanar Stephano,
Maria Elisa Drago-Serrano, Edgar Abarca-Rojano, Istvan Berczi,
Javier Ventura-Juárez and Alexandre Kormanovski
Chapter 20 Porins in the Inflammatory and Immunological
Response Following Salmonella Infections 399
Emilia Galdiero, Aikaterini Kampanaraki,
Eleonora Mignogna and Marilena Galdiero
Chapter 21 Serology as an Epidemiological Tool for
Salmonella Abortusovis Surveillance in
the Wild-Domestic Ruminant Interface 413
Pablo Martín-Atance, Luis León and Mónica G. Candela
Part 5 Pathogenesis 431
Chapter 22 Animal Models for Salmonella Pathogenesis:
Studies on the Virulence Properties Using
Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Host 433
Jeong Hoon Cho and Jaya Bandyopadhyay
Chapter 23 Insect/Bacteria Association and Nosocomial Infection 449
Marcos Antônio Pesquero, Lílian Carla Carneiro
and Débora De Jesus Pires
Chapter 24 The Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-1 and -2
Encoded Type III Secretion Systems 469
Amanda Wisner, Taseen Desin, Aaron White,
Andrew Potter and Wolfgang Köster
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Part 6 Novel Techniques 495
Chapter 25 Immunoimmobilization of Living Salmonella for
Fundamental Studies and Biosensor Applications 497
Zhiyong Suo, Muhammedin Deliorman, Sukriye Celikkol,
Xinghong Yang and Recep Avci
Chapter 26 New Options for Rapid Typing of Salmonella enterica
Serovars for Outbreak Investigation 523
Ian L. Ross, Chun Chun Young and Michael W. Heuzenroeder
Chapter 27 Multiplex TaqMan Real-Time PCR (qPCR) Assay
Targeting prot6E and invA Genes for Fast and
Accurate Detection of Salmonella Enteritidis 541
Narjol González-Escalona, Guodong Zhang and Eric W. Brown
