Texas A&M Vet Pro Finding Ways To Attack Salmonella

Ever the cagey foe, Salmonella has been around for millions of years and has managed to beat thousands of attempts to eradicate it. An amazingly "smart" and resilient germ but always totally ruthless, Salmonella and its more than 2,500 different strains are always looking for new ways to survive, but researchers from the University of California-Davis and Texas A&M University believe they have opened doors for new ways to fight it.

Garry Adams, professor in Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, along with University of California-Davis colleagues including Andreas Baumler and Sebastian Winter, among others, are examining ways that Salmonella exploits a host organism and how it gains entry into humans and animals and finds ways to continue its survival and its transmission into other hosts, much the way it has done for millions of years.

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