Identification of genetic differences between two Campylobacter jejuni strains with different colonization potentials The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper can be found in Table 2.

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The consumption of poultry meat contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni is considered to be a risk factor for human campylobacteriosis. The development of targeted strategies to control campylobacters in broilers would benefit from knowledge of those bacterial factors important in colonization of the avian gut. During preliminary studies it was noted that C. jejuni NCTC 11168 was a poorer colonizer of chickens...