Salmonella bongori

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

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]