Etymologia: Campylobacter

A recipe for disaster: outbreaks of campylobacteriosis associated with poultry liver pâté in England and Wales. A continuous common-source outbreak of campylobacteriosis associated with changes to the preparation of chicken liver pâté. immunity and coinfection following a large outbreak in a farming community. Comparison of Campylobacter populations isolated from a free-range broiler flock before and after slaughter. Newell DG. Multilocus sequence typing for comparison of veterinary and human isolates of Campylobacter jejuni. Campylobacter populations in wild geese with those in starlings and free-range poultry on the same farm. S. MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum par-simony methods. in chicken livers and their destruction by pan frying. enteritis due to related vibrio: first positive stool cultures. F rom the Greek kampylos (curved) and baktron (rod), a genus of gram-negative curved or spiral rods that is among the most common causes of foodborne diarrheal illness worldwide. Illness caused by Campylobacter spp. was first described by Theodor Escherich in 1886, but they were not successfully isolated from human fecal samples until 1972. For many years, they were classified among the vibrios, but Sebald and Véron proposed the genus Campylobacter in 1963 for these " slender, curved bacilli " that differ from the classical cholera and halophilic vibrios. Campylobacter [kamʺpə-lo-bakʹtər]