Abstract: Pigeon salmonellosis is a common and frequent disease caused by Salmonella in pigeon industry.It mainly damages young pigeons and causes serious economic losses in pigeon industry. Salmonella causing the disease is a facultative intracellular parasite,it can survive and reproduce in the host cells and evade the body's immune defense function,which makes it more difficult to purify the disease.At present,the use of antibiotics to control pigeon salmonellosis is the most commonly used effective measure in pigeon breeding.However,the extensive use and even abuse of antibiotics lead to the continuous production of drug-resistant Salmonella strains and drug residues,thus endangering food and public health safety.Nowadays,it has become the mainstream of animal disease prevention and control research to seek alternative antibiotics to reduce or replace the use of antibiotics.Due to the late start of pigeon breeding,few researches on pigeon salmonellosis and its prevention and control measures are done.In this paper,the research progress about salmonellosis of pigeons,the pathogenic mechanism of Salmonella and the prevention and control measures of antibiotic substitutes for Salmonella in recent years were reviewed,in order to provide reference for the related research of pigeon salmonellosis.

Key words: pigeon salmonellosis; pathogenic mechanism; antibiotic substitutes