Salmonella remains a major cause of economic loss in domestic livestock and human food poisoning worldwide. With fully updated chapters and new coverage of genome structure, virulence, vaccine development, molecular methods for epidemiology and exotics, this second edition is an invaluable resource for researchers of animal and human health.

Contributions by: Michael Jones, Andrew Roycroft, Muna E. Anjum, Andreas J. Bäumler, Frank M. Aarestrup, Pete Kaiser, H L Shivaprasad, Hafez Mohammed Hafez, Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos, John F Timoney, Frank Pasmans, Martin Wierup, R La Ragione, Katherine Hollinger, Pia Mäkelä, John Wain, Filip Van Immerseel, Paula Cray, Malcolm Cobb, Kris de Smet, R Davies