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SPI-7: Salmonella’s Vi-Encoding Pathogenicity Island

Author(s) -

Helena M. B. Seth-Smith

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.220

Subject(s) - pathogenicity island , salmonella enterica , virulence , salmonella , serotype , biology , typhoid fever , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , pathogenicity , gene , pilus , effector , transmission (telecommunications) , genetics , bacteria , immunology , electrical engineering , engineering

Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-7 (SPI-7) is a large, mosaic, genetic island, found in several serovars of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica associated with systemic disease. As well as encoding genes which may aid its own transmission, it carries genes for potential virulence factors such as Vi antigen, SopE effector and type IVB pili. The stability of SPI-7 is of interest with respect to typhoid fever and related vaccines.

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