AKT1 and Salmonella Infections: Salmonella infection induces activation of the PI3K/AKT axis and the mitogen‐activated protein kinase (MAPK) p38 (Hobbie, Chen, Davis, & Galan, 1997; Steele‐Mortimer et al., 2000), which have also been demonstrated to activate survival and proliferative signals critical in carcinogenesis (Dolado & Nebreda, 2008; Liu, Cheng, Roberts, & Zhao, 2009).