Salmonella strains used to validate the Salmonella serogenotyping array.

ainvA, galF and manC are species marker for Salmonella.bgenerous gift of Paul Barrow, University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus, UK.conly genomic DNA of Salmonella Typhi, generous gift of Rene S. Hendrickson, DTU Food, Denmark.Strains were classically serotyped by the CDC (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA), DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganism and Cell Cultures, Brunswick, Germany), SGSC (Salmonella Genetic Stock Center, Calgary, Canada) and FLI (National Reference Laboratory for Salmonellosis in cattle at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Jena, Germany).