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Campylobacter jejuni Colonization in the Crow Gut Involves Many Deletions within the Cytolethal Distending Toxin Gene Cluster.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 15 Mar 2018
Sen Keya, Lu Jingrang, Mukherjee Piyali, Berglund Tanner, Varughese Eunice, Mukhopadhyay Asish K
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Campylobacter spp. are major causes of gastroenteritis worldwide. The virulence potential of Campylobacter shed in crow feces obtained from a roost area in Bothell, Washington, was studied and compared with that from isolates from other parts of Washington and from a different crow species 7,000 miles away in Kolkata, India. Campylobacter organisms were isolated from 61% and 69% of the fecal samples obtained from...
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