Meet the editors

Alexandre Lamas is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He obtained a Ph.D. in Innovation in Food Safety and Technologies from the same university in 2019. He is the author of more than thirty-five scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals as well as four book chapters and two chapters in encyclopedias. He is an active

reviewer for different journals of food science and microbiology and a member of the editorial board of two international journals. His research focuses on the study of foodborne pathogens, especially Salmonella, new control methods, the study of food microbiota, and more recently the study of foodborne pathogens bacteriophages.

Carlos Manuel Franco is a full professor . He obtained a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Bromatology from the same university in 1994. He is the author of more than 120 international publications in scientific journals and several book chapters. He is currently a member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Security Agency Food and Nutrition (AESAN). He is the editor-in-chief and editorial board member of diverse food science and microbi-

ology journals. His research is focused on new methods of food control, detection of pathogenic bacteria in food and other matrices, and the effect of various substances on pathogenic bacteria.

Patricia Regal is a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Bromatology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She graduated in Veterinary Science from the Faculty of Veterinary Science of Lugo, in 2007, and obtained her Ph.D. (cum laude) in 2012. Dr. Regal has published more than fifty scientific articles in prestigious international journals. She has co-authored four book chapters, various

open-access articles, national contributions, and two chapters in encyclopedias. She has wide demonstrable experience in the field of food safety, food composition, omic technologies, biostatistics, biomarkers discovery, and chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry applied to biological matrices.

Contents

**Section 1**

Virulence Factors of *Salmonella Typhi by Noor S.K. Al-Khafaji, Ali M.K. Al-Bayati* 

*and Hussein O.M. Al-Dahmoshi*

Enteric Fever in Primary Care

*and Chandrajit Lahiri*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

An Overview of *Salmonella Typhi* and Vaccine Development **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 41**

An Overview of Non-Typhoidal *Salmonella* **65**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 81**

**Chapter 7 97**

*by Abdulmaleek Idanesimhe Sado and Aduke Oluwambe Sado*

In-Silico Approach in the Development of *Salmonella* Epitope Vaccine *by Hidajah Rachmawati, Raditya Weka Nugraheni and Firasti A.N. Sumadi*

Computational Identification of the Plausible Molecular Vaccine

*by Rohit Mishra, Yong Chiang Tan, Amr Adel Ahmed Abd El-Aal* 

Non-Typhoidal Salmonellosis: A Major Concern for Poultry Industry

Candidates of Multidrug-Resistant *Salmonella enterica*

*by Mamta Pandey and Emmagouni Sharath Kumar Goud*

*Salmonella* and the Immune System *by Weam Saad Al-Hamadany*

Pathogenicity Island in *Salmonella by Sarika Kombade and Navneet Kaur*
