Salmonella bongori
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Salmonella bongori is a pathogenic bacterium belonging to the genus Salmonella, and was earlier known as Salmonella subspecies V or S. enterica subsp. bongori or S. choleraesuis subsp. bongori. It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium (bacillus), which causes a gastrointestinal disease called salmonellosis, characterized by cramping and diarrhoea. It is typically considered a microbe of cold-blooded animals, unlike other members of the genus, and is most frequently associated with reptiles.[1]
Salmonella bongori | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Enterobacterales |
Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Salmonella |
Species: | S. bongori |
Binomial name | |
Salmonella bongori (Le Minor et al. 1985) Reeves et al. 1989 | |
It was discovered in 1966 from a lizard in the city of Bongor, Chad, from which the specific name bongori was derived.[2] After decades of controversy in Salmonella nomenclature, it gained the species status in 2005.[3]