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Molecular epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni populations in dairy cattle, wildlife, and the environment in a farmland area.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Aug 2008
Kwan Patrick S L, Barrigas Mishele, Bolton Frederick J, French Nigel P, Gowland Peter, Kemp Richard, Leatherbarrow Howard, Upton Mathew, Fox Andrew J
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We describe a cross-sectional study of the molecular epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni in a dairy farmland environment, with the aim of elucidating the dynamics of horizontal transmission of C. jejuni genotypes among sources in the area. A collection of 327 C. jejuni isolates from cattle, wildlife, and environmental sources in a 100-km(2) area of farmland in northwest England was characterized by multilocus...
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