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Novel clonal complexes with an unknown animal reservoir dominate Campylobacter jejuni isolates from river water in New Zealand.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Oct 2009
Carter P E, McTavish S M, Brooks H J L, Campbell D, Collins-Emerson J M, Midwinter A C, French N P
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter jejuni is widely distributed in the environment, and river water has been shown to carry high levels of the organism. In this study, 244 C. jejuni isolates from three river catchment areas in New Zealand were characterized using multilocus sequence typing. Forty-nine of the 88 sequence types identified were new. The most common sequence types identified were ST-2381 (30 isolates), ST-45 (25...
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