Beschreibung: Background: Solely in Europoe, Salmonella Typhimurium causes more than 100,000 infections per year.Improved detection of livestock colonised with S. Typhimurium is necessary to preventfoodborne diseases. Currently, commercially available ELISA assays are based on a mixtureof O-antigens (LPS) or total cell lysate of Salmonella and are hampered by cross-reaction.The identification of novel immunogenic proteins would be useful to develop ELISA baseddiagnostic assays with a higher specificity. Results: A phage display library of the entire Salmonella Typhimurium genome was constructed and47 immunogenic oligopeptides were identified using a pool of convalescent sera from pigsinfected with Salmonella Typhimurium. The corresponding complete genes of seven of theidentified oligopeptids were cloned. Five of them were produced in E. coli. The immunogeniccharacter of these antigens was validated with sera from pigs infeced with S. Tyhimurium andcontrol sera from non-infected animals. Finally, human antibody fragments (scFv) againstthese five antigens were selected using antibody phage display and characterised. Conclusion: In this work, we identified novel immunogenic proteins of Salmonella Typhimurium andgenerated antibody fragments against these antigens completely based on phage display. Fiveimmunogenic proteins were validated using a panel of positive and negative sera forprospective applications in diagnostics of Salmonela Typhimurium.