| Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica | |
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| Salmonella Typhimurium colonies on a Hektoen enteric agar plate | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Enterobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Salmonella |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | S. e. subsp. enterica
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| Trinomial name | |
| Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica | |
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is a subspecies of Salmonella enterica, the rod-shaped, flagellated, aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium. Many of the pathogenic serovars of the S. enterica species are in this subspecies, including that responsible for typhoid.[1]
- ^ Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Pfaller MA (2009). Medical Microbiology (6th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier. p. 307.