**Acknowledgement**

We thank the laboratory team from the National *Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Enteroinfections* (LRNEB) from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/FIOCRUZ). We would like to thank the PhDs Rosalina Koifman, Sérgio Koifman and Aldo Pacheco Ferreira from the National School of Public Health (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) for the encouragement to prepare this work. The first author J. F. Moura is funded by the Fiocruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ). In addition, we thank the invite of the In Tech to publish this book chapter.
