Pietro Mastroeni is a Lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Bacterial Immunology Team. Duncan Maskell is Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge.

'Whether your interests lie in human or animal infection, in the virulence factors that make Salmonella such a successful pathogen, or even in the ability of Salmonella to be used for the immunotherapy of cancer, this book should prove a useful addition to bookshelves in libraries and research labs.' Jay Hinton, Institute of Food Research

• 1. Epidemiological and clinical aspects of human typhoid fever Christopher M. Parry; 2. Antibiotic resistance in Salmonella infections Fiona J. Cooke and John Wain; 3. Host-specificity of Salmonella infections in animal species Timothy S. Wallis; 4. Public health aspects of Salmonella enterica in food production Tom Humphrey; 5. The Salmonella genome: a global view Anne L. Bishop, Gordon Dougan and Stephen Baker; 6. Pathogenicity islands and virulence of Salmonella enterica Michael Hensel; 7. In vivo identification, expression and function of Salmonella virulence genes Helen Andrews-Polymenis, Caleb W. Dorsey, Manuela Raffatellu and Andreas J. Bäumler; 8. Mechanisms of immunity to Salmonella infections Pietro Mastroeni; 9. Interactions of Salmonella enterica with phagocytic cells Bruce D. McCollister and Andres Vazquez-Torres; 10. Interactions between Salmonella and dendritic cells: what happens along the way? Cecilia Johansson, Malin Sundquist and Mary Jo Wick; 11. Immunity to Salmonella in domestic (food animal) species Paul Wigley, Paul Barrow and Bernardo Villarreal-Ramos; 12. Newer vaccines against typhoid fever and gastrointestinal Salmonelloses Richard A. Strugnell and Odilia L. C. Wijburg; 13. Salmonella enterica-based antigen delivery systems José A. Chabalgoity.