Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2009
Salmonella enterica encompasses a diverse range of bacteria that cause a spectrum of diseases in many hosts. Typhoid fever is still a major killer of people in the developing world and rears its ugly head whenever war or natural disaster strikes. The increase in antibiotic resistance that has been observed in S. enterica serovar Typhi makes the understanding of this pathogen ever more important. But typhoid fever is not the only Salmonella-related disease that causes concern, with human gastrointestinal disease a major problem in developed and developing countries, not forgetting salmonelloses in livestock that bring with them economic losses as well as the problems of zoonoses and food-borne disease.
The different salmonellae make up a versatile and fascinating group of organisms that have inspired both of the Editors of this book since we were scientific juveniles studying the pathogenesis and immunity of these bacteria for our Ph. D. degrees. As we have moved through the stages of our scientific careers, other bacteria and immunological questions may have caught our attention for a while, but always the salmonellae persisted, providing the bedrock of our interests and the centrepiece of our scientific enquiries.
So why edit a book on salmonellae now? The easy answer to this question is that the study of the salmonellae is entering a brave new world with the completion of the genome sequences of serovars Typhi, Paratyphi A and Typhimurium, with other sequences hot on their tail.
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