Publications
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| production of monoclonal antibody specific to campylobacter jejuni and its potential in diagnosis of campylobacter enteritis. | a monoclonal antibody (mab 3g6) specific for campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli was produced by immunizing balb/c mice with a local strain of c.jejuni (28.1). no cross-reactivity was observed with enterobacteriaceae controls. by immunoprecipitation, mab 3g6 identified a major protein band of molecular weight 45 kda and also gave a slight reactivity with 30 and 55 kda proteins. using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, mab 3g6 was able to detect c.jejuni suspended in stool wit ... | 1995 | 7488346 |
| partial characterization and effect of omeprazole on atpase activity in helicobacter pylori by using permeabilized cells. | atpase activity in permeabilized cells of helicobacter pylori as well as those of helicobacter felis and campylobacter jejuni was analyzed. the atpase activities in these cells were most susceptible to sodium azide, fluoroaluminate, and dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, which are typical inhibitors of f atpases. optimal values for maximal activity were found to be at approximately ph 6.4, 6.0, and 6.0 for c. jejuni, h. pylori, and h. felis, respectively. the substituted benzimidazole compounds omeprazol ... | 1995 | 7486907 |
| anti-ganglioside gm1 antibodies in guillain-barré syndrome and their relationship to campylobacter jejuni infection. | to clarify the association between campylobacter jejuni (cj) infection and antibodies to ganglioside gm1 (anti-gm1) in guillain-barré syndrome (gbs), we have carried out a prospective case-control study of 96 patients with gbs. cj infection occurred in 25 (26%) patients. igg and/or igm anti-gm1 were identified in 24 (25%) patients and in 1 of 71 (1.4%) household controls (p < 0.001). thirteen of the 25 (52%) cj-positive patients had anti-gm1 compared with 11 of the 71 (15%) cj-negative patients ... | 1995 | 7486873 |
| campylobacter jejuni infection and guillain-barré syndrome. | although infection with campylobacter jejuni is recognized as a common antecedent of the guillain-barré syndrome, the clinical and epidemiologic features of this association are not well understood. | 1995 | 7477117 |
| cloning of the helicobacter pylori reca gene and functional characterization of its product. | the reca protein is a key enzyme involved in dna recombination in bacteria. using a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification we cloned a reca homolog from helicobacter pylori. the gene revealed an open reading frame (orf) encoding a putative protein of 37.6 kda showing closest homology to the campylobacter jejuni reca (75.5% identity). a putative ribosome binding site and a near-consensus sigma 70 promoter sequence was found upstream of reca. a second orf, encoding a putative protein with n ... | 1995 | 7476856 |
| [characterization by rflp of dnas from campylobacter jejuni lior serotype reference strains and clinical isolates and detection of c. jejuni by dna-probe]. | the lior serotype reference strains and clinical isolates of campylobacter jejuni were compared in the restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp) pattern to distinguish c. jejuni strains. these reference strains showed rflp patterns different from one to another, while the patterns of some isolates were not coincident with those of the same serotype reference strains. furthermore, we tried to hybridize hindiii-digested fragments from these strains with the dna probe encoding the 46-kda prot ... | 1995 | 7474356 |
| carditis and arthritis associated with campylobacter jejuni infection. | three patients who developed carditis after enteritis caused by campylobacter jejuni are reported. two had perimyocarditis and one endocarditis. the cardiac sequelae persisted in two patients. concomitant arthritis appeared in two of these patients, monoarthritis in one and polyarthritis in the other. | 1980 | 7468319 |
| campylobacter spp in enteric lesions in cattle. | campylobacters were isolated from the intestinal mucosa of 16 of 47 cattle examined post mortem. of the 17 isolates seven were identified as campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni, eight as cf subsp intestinalis, one as c fecalis and one remained unidentified. cf subsp jejuni and cf subsp intestinalis were both recovered from one case. gross changes were not always seen at the sites from which campylobacters were isolated but microscopic changes were seen in all cases. the changes seen are described a ... | 1980 | 7434541 |
| serological response to campylobacter jejuni/coli infection. | the antibody response to campylobacter jejuni/coli infection was investigated in 59 patients involved in two outbreaks of milk-borne infection and in sporadic infections in the community. agglutinins and complement-fixing (cf) antibodies were detected in nearly all these patients. agglutinins were present in 25% of normal sera at low titres (not greater than 1/160) but cf antibody titres of 1/4 or 1/8 were present in only 2.0%. the agglutination reactions in convalescent sera were best developed ... | 1980 | 7430389 |
| serotyping of campylobacter jejuni/coli. | antisera were prepared from strains of campylobacter jejuni/coli isolated from patients in six outbreaks of enteritis. bactericidal antibodies, and agglutinating antibodies to heat-labile and heat-stable antigens, were demonstrated. these reactions were used to type a number of strains isolated from patients in each outbreak, and to distinguish 'epidemic' from 'non-epidemic' strains. | 1980 | 7430388 |
| ocular inflammation in reiter's syndrome associated with campylobacter jejuni enteritis. | an 18-year-old woman developed acute polyarthritis one week and bilateral, acute, mucopurulent conjunctivitis and sterile pyuria two weeks after onset of campylobacter jejuni enteritis. the conjunctivitis resolved spontaneously in one week and the arthritis in two months. the patient had hla-b27 antigen. campylobacter organisms may lead to reiter's syndrome in a patient with hla-b27 antigen. | 1980 | 7424757 |
| reactive arthritis after campylobacter jejuni enteritis. | reactive arthritis of 1 or more peripheral joints developed after an enteric infection with campylobacter jejuni in 6 adult patients. other reactive signs, such as conjunctivitis, aphthous stomatitis, stranguria and sterile leukocyturia occurred in 4 patients. five of the 6 patients possessed the hla-b27 antigen. the history indicated previous joint disease in 4 of the 6 patients. the short-term follow-up showed a benign course of the arthritis. when a reactive arthritis syndrome is clinically s ... | 1980 | 7420335 |
| campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni as a cause of gastroenteritis in jakarta, indonesia. | campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni was isolated from the feces of 15 out of 144 (10%) children (0 to 9 years old) and 4 out of 251 (2%) adults with gastroenteritis and was found together with another enteric pathogen in 2 of the children and in all 4 adults. it was isolated from 2 out of 7 (28%) children and 3 out of 160 (2%) adults with suspected typhoid fever. the bacterium was recovered from 3 out of 4 orphanage children with diarrhea and from 1 without symptoms and was isolated from only 1 ch ... | 1980 | 7419706 |
| bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of 24 antimicrobial agents against campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | the bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of 24 antimicrobial agents were tested with the dynatech mic 2000 system against 86 strains of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from human sources. the penicillins (penicillin g, ampicillin, amoxycillin, carbenicillin) had poor activity. ampicillin and amoxycillin were equally active. cefotaxime revealed a rather good activity. erythromycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin, and furazolidone were the most active compounds. two strains (2.3%) were r ... | 1980 | 7416738 |
| reiter's syndrome after campylobacter jejuni enteritis. | 1980 | 7406942 | |
| [infantile digestive campylobacteriosis. two case studies (author's transl)]. | the role played by campylobacter jejuni in the origin of infantile bacterial gastroenteritis is important. diarrhea, often bloody, is dysentery-like. fever, abdominal pain and vomiting are rarely lacking. dehydration is exceptional. spontaneous recovery occurs in about ten days. campylobacter jejuni is a gram-negative, oxidase-positive, microaerophilic bacillus. the often typical results of direct morphological examination of the stools, special culture and isolation techniques, the erythromycin ... | 1980 | 7396642 |
| [campylobacter jejuni enteritis in switzerland]. | in a two-center study (zurich and berne) covering a 5-month period (september 1979 to january 1980) 665 faeces from patients with diarrhoea and 800 faeces from people without diarrhoea were examined for campylobacter jejuni. by selective culture campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 28 faeces of 35 patients with diarrhoea (5,7%) while none of the normal faeces yielded a positive culture. isolation rates for salmonellae and shigellae from the same material (patients with diarrhoea) were 12.6% an ... | 1980 | 7394474 |
| campylobacter jejuni/coli meningitis in a neonate. | 1980 | 7388519 | |
| broiler chickens as potential source of campylobacter infections in humans. | of 46 broiler chickens from a live poultry market in new york city, 38 (83%) harbored campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in their rectal flora. the observed mean number of c. fetus per g of feces was 4.4 x 10(6). the organisms survived in the feces for at least 96 h at 4 degrees c whether stored in the gut or transferred to a vial. the best survival medium for pure cultures of c. fetus subsp.jejuni was heart infusion broth supplemented with sterile blood and kept in a microaerophilic atmosphere. | 1980 | 7381018 |
| hippurate hydrolysis by campylobacter fetus. | an additional method for differentiating between campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and c. fetus subsp. intestinalis is reported. strains of c. fetus subsp. jejuni (18/20) were shown to hydrolyze hippurate in the 2-h rapid test, whereas strains of c. fetus subsp. intestinalis did not. | 1980 | 7372805 |
| severe polyarthritis following campylobacter enteritis in a 12-year-old boy. | a severe attack of acute polyarthritis following a verified campylobacter jejuni enteritis is described in a 12-year-old boy. the patient possesses the hla-b27 antigen--often found in postinfectious arthritis following acute enteric infections. the aso titre showed a significant rise, but other serological findings and the clinical course made streptococcal infection unlikely. investigations to elucidate cross-reactivity between the two micro-organisms turned out negative. | 1980 | 7368933 |
| the effect of nacl on campylobacter jejuni/coli. | 1981 | 7344540 | |
| survival of campylobacter jejuni/coli in ground refrigerated and in ground frozen beef liver and in frozen broiler carcasses. | 1981 | 7344539 | |
| isolation of campylobacter jejuni from poultry carcases. | campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 94% of chicken carcase rinses collected in a queensland poultry abattoir. direct plating resulted in the isolation of the organism from 84% of the rinses. a further 10% were found to contain c. jejuni by a procedure of selective enrichment and membrane filtration. counts of c. jejuni on the carcases ranged from 0 to 1.1 x 10(5) organisms per carcase. | 1981 | 7342935 |
| campylobacter jejuni enteritis in italy. | 1981 | 7340852 | |
| campylobacter jejuni colitis in gnotobiotic dogs. | campylobacter jejuni of human and canine origin was inoculated orally into six gnotobiotically reared beagle puppies and reactions were compared with two controls. inoculated dogs developed transient lassitude, inappetence, mild diarrhea and tenesmus during the period 36-72 hours after inoculation. pairs of dogs killed 43 hours, and five and seven days after inoculation had lesions limited to typhlitis and colitis. congestion of colonic mucosa, associated loss of goblet cells, attenuation and ex ... | 1981 | 7337869 |
| [demonstration of campylobacter jejuni in fecal samples of clinically healthy-carrier-pigeons]. | 1981 | 7337645 | |
| [the occurrence of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and salmonella bacteria in some wild birds (author's transl)]. | an investigation was carried out into the occurrence of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and salmonella species in some wild birds. a total of 129 birds was examined, consisting of 71 pigeons, 54 seagulls, three crows and one raven. campylobacter bacteria were isolated from 32 birds (24.8%), of which three were pigeons, 27 seagulls and two were crows. of the 27 campylobacter strains isolated from seagulls, four had the biochemical characteristics of the nartc biotype described by skirrow and be ... | 1981 | 7335487 |
| [campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni as a surface contaminant of fresh and chilled pig carcasses (author's transl)]. | an investigation was carried out into the occurrence of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni on the surfaces of fresh and chilled pig carcasses. swabs were taken of the water in the scald-tank, from cut surfaces, and from cut surfaces of carcasses that had been stored at 5 degrees c for 4 days. a total of 310 swabs was investigated, of which 10 were from the scald-tank, 100 from livers, 100 from cut surfaces, and 100 from cut surfaces of carcasses stored at refrigeration temperature. a specific enr ... | 1981 | 7335483 |
| occurrence of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and yersinia enterocolitica in domestic animals and in some foods of animal origin in finland. | fecal samples of some domestic animals were investigated for occurrence of c. fetus subsp. jejuni and y. enterocolitica. the findings in this survey suggest, that the contamination rate in domestic animals for both bacteria is low. raw milk, pasteurized milk or ground meat samples were not positive for c. fetus subsp. jejuni. four per cent of the raw milk samples were positive for y. enterocolitica. each of the y. enterocolitica strains belonged to nilehn's biotype 1 and they were noninvasive. | 1981 | 7329785 |
| gastroenteritis due to campylobacter jejuni in riyadh, saudi arabia. | during one year, 1452 specimens of faeces from patients with diarrhoea were investigated for campylobacter jejuni. this organism was isolated from nine specimens only (0.6%). none was isolated from 160 control subjects who did not have diarrhoea. though the number of isolates is small, diarrhoea due to c. jejuni was found to be more common in males; the ratio of males to females was 7:2. out of the nine patients, only four were saudis. this indicates that campylobacter gastroenteritis exists in ... | 1981 | 7324103 |
| campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni: experience in a large chicago medical center. | from january 1979 through december 1979, 2069 stool specimens received by our laboratory for enteric culturing were additionally examined for the presence of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. the study population included inpatients, outpatients and hospital food handlers. patients were included regardless of symptoms. enteric pathogens were identified as follows: salmonella, 27 isolates; campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni, 26 isolates; and shigella, 11 isolates. twenty-five of 26 patients with ... | 1981 | 7315864 |
| the occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in fresh food and survival under different conditions. | campylobacter jejuni was an almost regular finding in chickens and in minced meat from pigs and cattle sold in ordinary food stores. the bacteria survived on the food at 4 degrees c for one week and frozen at -20 degrees c for three months. none of the strains tested survived heat treatment at 60 degrees c for longer than 15 min. c. jejuni is apparently a frequent guest in most kitchens. correct food handling and heat treatment to at least 60 degrees c for 15 min should be enough to prevent infe ... | 1981 | 7310124 |
| effect of moisture content of the medium on colony morphology of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | reduction in the moisture content of the medium produced a profound effect on the colony morphology of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. fresh medium produced flat, grayfish, spreading colonies with an irregular shape and variety appearance. plates that were incubated at 30 degrees c for 48 h produced round, convex, butyrous colonies with an entire edge. plates incubated at 30 degrees c for 24 h before inoculation produced colonies of an intermediate nature; they were round and raised, but not ... | 1981 | 7309853 |
| isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from bangladeshi children. | to determine the prevalence of infection with campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in bangladesh, culture surveys were conducted among three populations. in dacca, campylobacter was isolated from 5.2% of 97 individuals with clinical dysentery and from 12.3% of 204 patients with only diarrhea. this difference may have resulted from a greater representation of young children in the second group. campylobacter was isolated from 17.7% of the 141 healthy village children aged 1 to 5.5 years and from 38. ... | 1980 | 7309841 |
| susceptibility of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni, isolated from patients in jakarta, indonesia to ten antimicrobial agents. | 1981 | 7298551 | |
| experimental campylobacter diarrhea in chickens. | an animal model for campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni enteritis was developed in 3-day-old chickens. diarrhea was induced in 88% (22 of 25) of chickens inoculated with 9 x 10(7) bacteria given orally. the mean incubation time was 45 h (range, 24 to 72 h). considerable weight loss was observed in the experimental group compared with the control group. ninety bacteria was the minimal infective dose capable of inducing diarrhea in 90% of the chickens. overall mortality was 32% (8 of 25). light micr ... | 1981 | 7298187 |
| incidence of campylobacter jejuni in fresh eviscerated whole market chickens. | 1981 | 7296414 | |
| transmissible plasmids from campylobacter jejuni. | tetracycline resistance in clinical isolates of campylobacter jejuni was shown to be plasmid mediated. intra- and interspecies transfers to c. fetus subsp. fetus were demonstrated. the frequency of transfer was increased by approximately 100-fold on a solid surface by using a plate- or filter-mating procedure, as compared with a liquid-mating method. results of experiments in which cell-free filtrates were used to replace the donor strain in mating experiments tend to rule out bacteriophage-medi ... | 1981 | 7294767 |
| evaluation of media for isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from fecal specimens. | isolation rates of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from human fecal specimens were equivalent after broth enrichment (thioglycolate medium containing antibiotics) and direct inoculation on two brucella blood agar media containing ferrous sulfate, sodium metabisulfite, and sodium pyruvate, identical concentrations of vancomycin and trimethoprim, and different concentrations of polymyxin b and cephalothin. studies with clinical isolates of c. fetus subsp. jejuni demonstrated temperature-dependen ... | 1981 | 7287894 |
| intestinal colonization of neonatal animals by campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | neonatal mice (2.3 to 2.8 g) were inoculated intragastrically with different human isolates of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. at weekly intervals thereafter, mice were sacrificed and dilution plate counts were performed on segments of the gastrointestinal tract. mice were uniformly colonized by some strains for 2 weeks, whereas other strains were being cleared at that time. one strain (bo216) persisted in some mice for 3 weeks. the greatest number of organisms (10(7)) was recovered from the ... | 1981 | 7287188 |
| campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni: its possible significance in enteric disease of calves and lambs. | fecal samples from 127 diarrheic and 3 healthy beef calves, representing 25 herds with enteric disease, were cultured for campylobacter, using filtration and a selective medium. campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni (cfj) was isolated from 51 (40%) of the diarrheic calves representing 14 (56%) herds and from the 3 clinically healthy calves (1 each in 3 of these 14 herds). campylobacter fetus subsp intestinalis was not isolated from the calves. fecal samples from 36 diarrheic and 20 healthy lambs repr ... | 1981 | 7283242 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility of campylobacter jejuni isolated from humans with diarrhoea and from healthy chickens. | 1981 | 7275880 | |
| persistent excretion of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | 1981 | 7272877 | |
| erythromycin-resistant campylobacter jejuni. | 1980 | 7260767 | |
| isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from the gallbladder of normal slaughter pigs, using an enrichment procedure. | 1981 | 7258027 | |
| midtrimester abortion associated with septicaemia caused by campylobacter jejuni. | the clinical record of a patient who suffered a mid-trimester missed abortion during an acute febrile illness is presented. campylobacter jejuni was isolated from her blood cultures. complete clinical recovery followed evacuation of the uterus and antibiotic therapy. evidence of placental infection was found on histological examination. the possible role of campylobacter and other infections in fetal and perinatal death is discussed. | 1981 | 7254038 |
| [campylobacter jejuni enteritis]. | 1981 | 7253761 | |
| antimicrobial susceptibility of campylobacter jejuni with special reference to resistance patterns of canadian isolates. | agar dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing of camphylobacter jejuni showed that erythromycin, clindamycin, nitrofurantoin, and gentamicin were the most active compounds, inhibiting 90% of the isolates at a concentration of 1 microgram/ml or less. the frequency of high-level erythromycin resistance was 1%. erythromycin-resistant isolates showed cross-resistance to clindamycin. all strains were inhibited by chloramphenicol at less than or equal to 8 micrograms/ml. about 20% of the isolates ... | 1981 | 7247381 |
| arthritis associated with campylobacter jejuni enteritis. | among 342 patients with infection due to campylobacter fetus ss. jejuni, 8 cases (2.3%) of arthritis were found. three patients had monoarthritis and 5 oligoor polyarthritis. the arthritis began 4 days - 4 weeks after the onset of diarrhoea; this interval and the synovial fluid findings suggest that the arthritis was reactive. the histocompatibility antigen hla-b 27 was identified in 5 of the 7 patients tested. | 1981 | 7244582 |
| campylobacter jejuni carriers in australian aboriginal communities. | 1981 | 7242432 | |
| long-term infections with campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | seventy-three apparently healthy, rural south african schoolchildren 6 to 8 or 13 to 16 years of age were examined five times over a 16-month period for fecal pathogens. nine were positive for campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. the organism was isolated intermittently from six children for at least 9 months and from three children for more than 1 year. five of the long-term infections occurred among the 46 children aged 6 to 8 years (10.9%) versus one long-term infection among the 27 children ag ... | 1981 | 7240397 |
| antimicrobial susceptibility of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus to eight cephalosporins with special reference to species differentiation. | agar dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing showed that campylobacter jejuni was significantly more resistant than campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus (intestinalis) to cephalosporin c, cephaloridine, cephalothin, cefazolin, and cefamandole. no species differences in susceptibility were noted with cephalexin, cefotaxime, and cefoxitin. rapid species differentiation on the basis of an antibiogram could be achieved with the disk diffusion method. c jejuni failed to produce a zone of inhibition ... | 1980 | 7235681 |
| perinatal campylobacter fetus ss jejuni enteritis. | a 2-day-old breast-fed male infant developed mucoid and blood diarrhoea, and campylobacter fetus ss jejuni was isolated from the stools but not from the blood. the probable source of transmission was his mother in whom symptoms of campylobacter jejuni-associated illness began one day earlier. both showed igm, igg and iga antibody responses to autologous and reciprocal strains of campylobacter jejuni as studied by elisa. | 1981 | 7234412 |
| [campylobacter jejuni enteritis complicated by glomerulonephritis]. | 1981 | 7233602 | |
| campylobacter jejuni diarrhea in nebraska. | 1981 | 7231599 | |
| carriage of campylobacter jejuni in healthy and diarrheic animals. | feces from normal and diarrheic animals were cultured for campylobacter jejuni. a clear difference could not be detected in carriage between normal and diarrheic cattle, horses, pigs, and dogs. too few diarrheic goats, sheep, and rabbits were sampled for conclusions to be made. carriage rates (%) detected in normal animals were as follows: ducks 88.3, chickens 23.8, sheep 13.6, rabbits 11.3, goats 2.7, cattle 2.5, and dogs 0.5. the organism was not isolated from horses and mink. carriage rates v ... | 1981 | 7224312 |
| [acute diarrhoea due to campylobacter jejuni in children (author's transl)]. | a systematic search for campylobacter jejuni in stool cultures from children with acute diarrhoea showed within two months that the organism was present in 3 out of 17 children. apart from diarrhoea, the symptoms were different in each case: one child had febrile dysentery, another exhibited symptoms resembling appendicitis and the third one had chronic diarrhoea with denutrition. the condition regressed spontaneously in two cases and after erythromycin treatment in one. phase-contrast microscop ... | 1981 | 7220285 |
| enriched brucella medium for storage and transport of cultures of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | a semisolid brucella medium with 10% sheep blood was used for storage and transport of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and subsp. intestinalis and kept isolated alive about 3 weeks or longer at 25 degrees c or when sent through the regular mail. | 1980 | 7217338 |
| isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni from migratory waterfowl. | since the sources from which humans acquire campylobacter enteritis are only partially known, we studied the frequency of carriage of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in migratory waterfowl. cecal contents of various species of wild ducks were cultured on selective media that contained antibiotics to inhibit normal flora. thirty-five percent of the 445 ducks cultured harbored c. fetus subsp. jejuni. migratory waterfowl are yet another reservoir for this enteric pathogen and may be of public hea ... | 1980 | 7217334 |
| [campylobacter jejuni enterocolitis (author's transl)]. | 1980 | 7211121 | |
| comparison of selective media for primary isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. | three selective media, skirrow, butzler, and a modification of butzler medium, were compared for the primary isolation of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. this organism was isolated from 87 of 347 specimens (72 from 240 dogs rectal swabs and 15 from 107 cats rectal swabs). the positive rate for dogs (30%) was twice as high as that for cats (14%). skirrow and butzler media were comparable in their isolation of c. fetus subsp. jejuni. a significantly higher rate of positive results was obtained ... | 1981 | 7204549 |
| campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in a turkey processing plant. | cecal cultures taken over a 1-year period from 600 turkeys at a poultry processing plant were all positive for campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni. swabs of the cloaca and fresh feces were likewise all positive. of 33 freshly dressed turkey carcases, 94% were positive before chilling in tanks of chlorinated ice and water; 34% of 83 carcasses were still positive after overnight soaking in the tanks. increasing the chlorine content from 50 to 340 ppm (50 to 340 micrograms/ml) did not cause a decreas ... | 1981 | 7204547 |
| campylobacter jejuni: incidence in processed broilers and biotype distribution in human and broiler isolates. | campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 18 of 40 processed broiler carcasses and 134 of 327 cloacal swabs obtained at four processing plants in sydney, australia. three of four flocks examined carried c. jejuni. eighty-two percent of chicken and 98% of human isolates from the area were of identical biotypes. | 1982 | 7201780 |
| hippurate hydrolysis by and triphenyltetrazolium tolerance of campylobacter fetus. | a rapid test of hippurate hydrolysis and a test of tolerance to triphenyltetrazolium chloride (ttc) were studied in 315 strains of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni to determine their usefulness for biotyping this organism and for distinguishing it from c. fetus subsp. intestinalis. of the 315 strains tested, 84% hydrolyzed hippurate and 97% were resistant to ttc. ability to hydrolyze hippurate was seen in 99% of 155 human isolates, 75% of 60 avian isolates, 100% of 41 cattle and dog isolates, 8 ... | 1982 | 7186902 |
| campylobacter in healthy slaughter pigs: a possible source of infection for man. | campylobacter were isolated from 103 of 173 (59 per cent) specimens of healthy slaughter pig faeces, washed intestines and water samples collected from a slaughterhouse and butcher's shop in west germany. as most cases of human campylobacter enteritis are caused by campylobacter jejuni, an attempt was made to find this organism among the isolates. twenty-five out of the 103 strains (24 per cent) were identified as c jejuni. c jejuni was also isolated from salted water samples after overnight bow ... | 1982 | 7186689 |
| campylobacter jejuni/coli in abattoirs and butchers shops. | 1982 | 7185998 | |
| isolation of campylobacter jejuni from domestic animals and pets: probable origin of human infection. | 1981 | 7185941 | |
| [morphological differences between campylobacter jejuni and c. fetus]. | 1982 | 7182541 | |
| survival of campylobacter jejuni inoculated into ground beef. | ground beef was inoculated with mixed cultures of campylobacter jejuni, and the samples were subjected to various cooking and cold-storage temperatures. when samples were heated in an oven at either 190 or 218 degrees c, approximately 10(7) cells of c. jejuni per g were inactivated (less than 30 cells per g) in less than 10 min after the ground beef reached an internal temperature of 70 degrees c. when the samples were held at -15 degrees c over 14 days of storage, the numbers of c. jejuni decli ... | 1982 | 7181502 |
| [campylobacter jejuni enteritis in childhood. apropos of 3 cases]. | 1982 | 7181396 | |
| comparison of four enrichment media in the recovery of campylobacter jejuni. | 1982 | 7180786 | |
| effect of recovery medium on the isolation of campylobacter jejuni before and after heat treatment. | 1982 | 7180785 | |
| campylobacter enteritis: a large outbreak traced to commercial raw milk. | from april 24 to may 11, 1981, an outbreak of approximately 200 cases of campylobacter jejuni enteritis occurred in arizona in persons who drank one brand of unpasteurized milk. two cohort studies showed that households with members who drank raw milk reported diarrheal illness significantly more frequently than those in which no one drank raw milk (p=.003 and p=.001; relative risk 4.70 and 3.85, respectively). of 19 serotyped c jejuni organisms isolated from persons who drank raw milk from the ... | 1982 | 7179958 |
| intestinal occurrence of campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni and clostridium difficile in children in sweden. | stool samples were cultured from 356 children in different states of health and in different age groups between birth and six years of age in order to investigate the occurrence of campylobacter jejuni and clostridium difficile. campylobacter jejuni was isolated from two of 56 children with diarrhoea but was not isolated from any of 300 healthy children or children recently treated with antibiotics. campylobacter jejuni does not seem to be a common cause of diarrhoea in children in sweden and is ... | 1982 | 7173168 |
| evaluation of campylobacter jejuni incidence in enteritis; biologic characteristics of isolated strains. | 1982 | 7171303 | |
| [the occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and mice in the laboratory animal unit]. | 1982 | 7168755 | |
| campylobacter jejuni enteritis: incidence, age distribution and clinical symptoms. | 1982 | 7168373 | |
| campylobacter jejuni contamination of slaughtered chickens. | gut samples from 50 nonselected slaughtered chickens were obtained in two poultry processing plants and cultured for campylobacter jejuni and salmonella. positive results were obtained in 84% and 4%, respectively. viable c. jejuni and salmonella were detected in every phase of processing, even during packaging for commercial purposes. of surface samples taken from 118 slaughtered chickens prepared for delivery to consumers, 88 were contaminated by c. jejuni and 17 by salmonella. | 1982 | 7168372 |
| enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) for antibodies against campylobacter jejuni, and its clinical application. | antibody response to campylobacter jejuni/coli (cjc) was investigated, using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, elisa. with a mixture of lipopolysaccharide from two cjc strains as antigen in elisa, all 24 tested rabbit anti-cjc sera showed high antibody levels. however, only 70% of sera from patients with campylobacter enteritis demonstrated an antibody response against the combined lps antigen, using paired sera. in addition, the results obtained suggested non-specific binding of human immun ... | 1982 | 7168317 |
| bacteraemic enteritis due to campylobacter jejuni. | 1982 | 7167093 | |
| campylobacter jejuni enteritis in man and domestic animals. | 1982 | 7161171 | |
| a modified broth-disk antibiotic susceptibility test for campylobacter jejuni. | a broth-disk method for determining the antibiotic susceptibility of campylobacter species was studied. the broth-disk method used to test anaerobes was modified for testing the antibiotic susceptibility of campylobacter jejuni in an aerobic atmosphere. the basal medium of the test consisted of brucella broth with 0.13% agar and contained a ferrous iron, sodium pyruvate, sodium bisufite supplement. antibiotic disks were added to the tubed medium to approximate the minimal inhibitory concentratio ... | 1982 | 7160369 |
| [epidemiology of campylobacter jejuni/coli--enteritis in children]. | the infections of children caused by c. jejuni/coli are mainly transferred via three infection chains: (1) direct contact with c.jejuni coli-contaminated feces; (2) consumption of contaminated meat which was cooked insufficiently; (3) consumption of food which was contaminated by e.g. the mother during preparation of the childrens meat. the common characteristics of these chains are insufficient hygienic precautions. | 1982 | 7155150 |
| trimethoprim activity in media selective for campylobacter jejuni. | the activity of trimethoprim (tmp) in two selective media used for isolation of campylobacter jejuni was evaluated. the two selective media, campy-bap and skirrow medium, contain tmp in addition to other antimicrobial agents. the minimal inhibitory concentrations of tmp in blood agar base (basal agar for skirrow medium) or brucella agar (basal agar for campy-bap) for three sensitive control organisms were compared with those in mueller-hinton agar, which contains low levels of thymidine. tmp was ... | 1982 | 7153334 |
| campylobacter jejuni peritonitis complicating continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. | we report the occurrence of campylobacter jejuni peritonitis complicating c. jejuni enteritis in a patient treated with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. cure followed oral administration of erythromycin and intraperitoneal therapy with gentamicin. | 1982 | 7153322 |
| outer membrane characteristics of campylobacter jejuni. | outer membranes were isolated from type strains and wild-type isolates of campylobacter jejuni and campylobacter coli by sodium lauryl sarcosinate extraction, and the polypeptide complement and lipopolysaccharide (lps) content were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. the protein profiles exhibited by membranes from both species were quite similar, but could be distinguished from the type strain of the genus, c. fetus subsp. fetus cip5396. the sodium dodecyl sul ... | 1982 | 7152677 |
| [adult campylobacter jejuni enteritis: a report of 9 cases]. | 1982 | 7151552 | |
| intestinal colonization and competitive exclusion of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni in young chicks. | colonization of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni was investigated in monoxenic and holoxenic chicks. in monoxenic chicks, major colonization was found in the crop and ceca, with populations in the ceca consistently reaching 10(9) colony-forming-units/ml of cecal contents over the 28-day test period. bacteremia was found in most chicks, but no significant gross pathological lesions were detected. in holoxenic chicks, major colonization occurred only in the ceca, and no evidence of bacteremia was ... | 1982 | 7150145 |
| travellers' diarrhoea caused by campylobacter jejuni. | over a period of 18 months campylobacter jejuni was isolated from the faeces of 19 (5.8%) of 329 travellers with diarrhoea, among 2488 patients attending the outpatient department of tropical diseases at aurora hospital. incidences of salmonella, shigella and c. jejuni in diarrhoeal patients were very similar. c. jejuni caused initial symptoms of diarrhoeal disease indistinguishable from travellers' diarrhoea from other causes. double bacterial or bacterial-parasitic infections were shown in 22 ... | 1982 | 7149612 |
| campylobacter enteritis associated with foodborne transmission. | during an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness at a boys summer camp in connecticut in june-july 1980, campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 16 of 41 ill persons but from none of 63 controls (p less than 0.001). when the indirect fluorescent antibody assay was used, cross-titering serum and isolates from five patients showed all isolates to be identical. lack of serologic response in culture-negative ill persons suggested that a second etiologic agent may have been involved. ten convalescent ca ... | 1982 | 7148815 |
| [etiological significance of campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni and parvovirus in acute enteritis in the dog]. | 1982 | 7148215 | |
| five cases of campylobacter jejuni/coli bacteremia. | during a 3-year period (1977-1979) 5 cases of campylobacter jejuni/coli (cjc) bacteremia were observed in the south of sweden. four of the 5 patients had diarrhoea and 3 of 4 patients tested showed a serological response to a homologous strain. this accumulation of bacteremia cases may be explained from the short duration between the onset of high fever (less than 38.5 degrees c) and obtaining blood cultures, and the use of blind subcultures in the laboratory procedures. | 1982 | 7146830 |
| diversity of serotypes in outbreaks of enteritis due to campylobacter jejuni. | 1982 | 7142751 | |
| campylobacter jejuni as an etiological agent of diarrheal diseases in israel. | during a 2-yr period starting on 22 july 1979, campylobacter jejuni was isolated in 3,008 stool cultures from 2,450 persons--2,430 (43.%) out of 56,439 patients with acute gastroenteritis and 20 out of 200 asymptomatic household contacts. no isolates of c. jejuni were obtained from any of a control group of 222 subjects. in 176 patients with c. jejuni, salmonella and/or shigella were isolated concomitantly. all illnesses were mild to severe and all patients, including 61 requiring hospitalizatio ... | 1982 | 7141854 |
| pathogenicity of campylobacter jejuni isolates from animals and humans. | fourteen isolates of campylobacter jejuni of different serotypes and one campylobacter coli isolate, from various human and animal sources, were tested for potential pathogenic mechanisms. enterotoxin production was not detected in the infant mouse test or by calf and piglet ligated intestinal loop studies. isolates were not invasive by the sereny test. all isolates associated with and penetrated hela cells, although both actions occurred generally in a minor way under the conditions of our stud ... | 1982 | 7141696 |
| campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni. a cause of diarrhea in a patient with a continent ileostomy. | 1982 | 7140489 | |
| [gastroenteritis caused by campylobacter jejuni in childhood]. | fifteen patients with stool growth of "campylobacter jejuni" are presented. in one case it was associated with growth of "salmonella typhimurium". fourteen cases presented as an acute gastroenteritis whereas the remainder case was considered to be an asymptomatic carrier. the incidence was 5.8%. the disease was more frequent in infancy (13 cases occurred in ages below one year). diarrhea was the most frequent symptom (93.3%), with presence of macroscopic blood in the stool in 78.5% of these case ... | 1982 | 7137724 |
| [difference in oxygen requirements between the metronidazole-sensitive parent strain and its resistant variant of campylobacter jejuni]. | 1982 | 7131777 | |
| the occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in dog faeces from a public park. | dog faeces collected from a public park were cultured on selective media for campylobacter spp. campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 12 (4.6%) of 260 specimens. in contrast salmonella spp. were found in only three (1.2%). six of the 12 isolates were nalidixic acid-resistant thermophilic campylobacters (nartc), whereas during the same period of study none were found among human isolates. most of the campylobacter positive faeces were found during june and july. dog faeces deposited in public pl ... | 1982 | 7130699 |