Molecular evidence for zoonotic transmission of an emergent, highly pathogenic Campylobacter jejuni clone in the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 680-687

  Sahin, Orhan ^a   Fitzgerald, Collette ^b   Stroika, Steven ^b   Zhao, Shaohua ^c   Sippy, Rachel J ^a   Kwan, Patrick ^b   Plummer, Paul J ^a   Han, Jing ^a   Yaeger, Michael J ^a   Zhang, Qijing ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILE; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE FECES; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIC; FECES; GOAT; HOST; HUMAN; MILK; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RAW MILK; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; SHEEP; SHEEP ABORTION; SHEEP BILE; SHEEP FECES; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY ABORTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BILE; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOTYPE; GOATS; HUMANS; MILK; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84863154367     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06167-11     Document Type: Article

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