Please use Adobe Acrobat Reader to read this book chapter for free. Just open this same document with Adobe Reader. If you do not have it, you can download it here. You can freely access the chapter at the Web Viewer here. Salmonella-Distribution, Adaptation, Control Measures and Molecular Technologies 292 dangerous clinical expression of a Salmonella infection, Typhoid fever, affects 16 million people per year, with almost 500,000 fatal cases, as estimated by the World Health Organization (Pang et al., 1998). In fact, not all Salmonella isolates identified worldwide have such devastating consequences to human or animal health. Some of the Salmonella seroptypes or serovars are strictly adapted to primates (Salmonella Typhi, Salmonella Paratyphi, Salmonella Wien) being referred to as prototrophic for man; others are strictly adapted to some animal species (Salmonella Gallinarum-Pullorum, Salmonella Abortusovis, Salmonella Abortusequi), being referred to as prototrophic to animals; however, the vast majority of the serotypes are zoonotic, being able to infect both animals and humans. Salmonella varieties differentiation is based on its antigenic mosaic, in a complex combination of somatic (O), flagelar (H) and capsular (Vi) antigens. Serotyping according to the Kauffmann-White system, established in the middle of the last century, is still recognized as the reference method for discrimination of Salmonella varieties. Each combination of different antigens found in a particular Salmonella isolate (serotype or serovar) has a specific designation, following the international nomenclature based on one hundred years of scientific contributions, which sometimes originated peculiar designations (