Microbe Profile: Campylobacter jejuni - survival instincts.
Ozan Gundogdu ;
Brendan W Wren ;
(2020)
Microbe Profile: Campylobacter jejuni - survival instincts.
Microbiology (Reading, England), 166 (3).
pp. 230-232.
ISSN 1350-0872
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000906
Campylobacter jejuni is considered to be the most common bacterial cause of human gastroenteritis worldwide. C. jejuni can cause bloody diarrhoea, fever and abdominal pain in humans along with post-infectious sequelae such as Guillain-Barré syndrome (a paralytic autoimmune complication). C. jejuni infections can be fatal, particularly among young children. C. jejuni are distributed in most warm-blooded animals, and therefore the main route of transmission is generally foodborne, via the consumption and handling of meat products (particularly poultry). C. jejuni is microaerophilic and oxygen-sensitive, although it appears to be omnipresent in the environment, one of the many contradictions of Campylobacter.
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