“…There are several molecular mechanisms, including bacterial adherence, replication in host cells, species-specific toxins or metal acquisition involved in host specificity of Salmonella (reviewed in Baumler and Fang, 2013). It was previously shown that FimH adhesin single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) impact adhesion properties of E. coli (Sokurenko et al, 1994) and Salmonella (Boddicker et al, 2002; Grzymajlo et al, 2010), as well as Salmonella host specificity (Boddicker et al, 2002; Grzymajlo et al, 2010, 2013; Kisiela et al, 2012; Yue et al, 2015). Furthermore, host-adapted S .…”