ABSTRACT

Campylobacter is one of the major causes of diarrhea in humans and C. jejuni subsp. jejuni and C. coli are the species most frequently associated with acute foodborne gastroenteritis. C. lari and C. upsaliensis are also recognized as primary pathogens, but have not been isolated with the same frequency (WHO, 2000). In the United States and the United Kingdom, C. jejuni subsp. jejuni accounts for more than 90% of the strains isolated from clinical specimens (Tauxe et al., 1988, Stanley and Jones, 2003, Gupta et al., 2004).