| Salmonella bongori | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Salmonella |
| Species: | S. bongori
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| Binomial name | |
| Salmonella bongori (Le Minor et al. 1985) Reeves et al. 1989
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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]
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]
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