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Continued widespread dissemination and increased poultry host fitness of Campylobacter jejuni ST-4526 and ST-4253 in Japan.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 May 2013
Asakura H, Taguchi M, Ekawa T, Yamamoto S, Igimi S
Abstract excerpt
AIMS: Campylobacter jejuni is a major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis. We previously reported the widespread Camp. jejuni sequence type (ST)-4526 in Japan from 2005 to 2006. This study assesses the potential for this genotype to thrive thereafter. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fifty human Camp. jejuni isolates collected in 2010-2011 in Osaka, Japan, were genotyped by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). This approach...
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