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Campylobacter spp

ampylobacter jejuni is a bacterium that was first recognized as a cause of human gastrointestinal illness in 1975.

Campylobacteriosis, the illness caused by campylobacter, is a zoonotic emerging infectious disease characterized by diarrhea (often bloody) abdominal pain, malaise, fever, nausea & vomiting.

The severity of the disease is variable; for some people, campylobacter infection may result in long-term health problems as ''Guillian-Barré'' syndrome that occurs several weeks after the acute diarrheal disease & may result in permanent paralysis

Campylobacter jejuni has been identified as the most common cause of bacterial food-borne illness in the world, ahead of salmonella – the second most common cause.

Over 10.000 cases of campylobacteriosis are reported to the Center for Disease Control & prevention (CDC) each year; many more cases go undiagnosed. The actual number of campylobacter cases is probably around 38 times the number of reported cases based on studies of salmonellosis.

C. jejuni is usually present in high numbers in the diarrheal stools of individuals, but isolation requires special antibiotic-containing media, a special microaerophilic atmosphere (5% oxygen) & a special transport medium, which is not always used in routine laboratory practices & is the main cause of missing the diagnosis of this organism.


Now specific transport & culture media for isolation of campylobacter is available at Alfa lab.

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