Poultry as a Host for the Zoonotic Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni

D Hermans, F Pasmans, W Messens… - Vector-Borne and …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Campylobacteriosis is the most reported foodborne gastroenteritic disease and poses a
serious health burden in industrialized countries. Disease in humans is mainly caused by …

Colonization factors of Campylobacter jejuni in the chicken gut

D Hermans, K Van Deun, A Martel, F Van Immerseel… - Veterinary …, 2011 - Springer
Campylobacter contaminated broiler chicken meat is an important source of foodborne
gastroenteritis and poses a serious health burden in industrialized countries. Broiler …

High-Resolution Transcriptome Maps Reveal Strain-Specific Regulatory Features of Multiple Campylobacter jejuni Isolates

G Dugar, A Herbig, KU Förstner, N Heidrich… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Campylobacter jejuni is currently the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans.
Comparison of multiple Campylobacter strains revealed a high genetic and phenotypic …

The Salmonella enterica Pan-genome

A Jacobsen, RS Hendriksen, FM Aaresturp… - Microbial ecology, 2011 - Springer
Salmonella enterica is divided into four subspecies containing a large number of different
serovars, several of which are important zoonotic pathogens and some show a high degree …

Campylobacter control in poultry by current intervention measures ineffective: urgent need for intensified fundamental research

D Hermans, K Van Deun, W Messens, A Martel… - Veterinary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Campylobacter-contaminated poultry meat is an important source of foodborne
gastroenteritis and poses a serious health burden in industrialized countries. Broiler …

An Asian origin of virulent Aeromonas hydrophila responsible for disease epidemics in United States-farmed catfish

MJ Hossain, D Sun, DJ McGarey, S Wrenn… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Since 2009, catfish farming in the southeastern United States has been severely impacted
by a highly virulent and clonal population of Aeromonas hydrophila causing motile …

Core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme for stable, comparative analyses of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli human disease isolates

AJ Cody, JE Bray, KA Jolley, ND McCarthy… - Journal of clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Human campylobacteriosis, caused by Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, remains a leading
cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in many countries, but the epidemiology of …

Defining the metabolic requirements for the growth and colonization capacity of Campylobacter jejuni

D Hofreuter - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
During the last decade Campylobacter jejuni has been recognized as the leading cause of
bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. This facultative intracellular pathogen is a member of the …

A Reference Pan-Genome Approach to Comparative Bacterial Genomics: Identification of Novel Epidemiological Markers in Pathogenic Campylobacter

G Méric, K Yahara, L Mageiros, B Pascoe… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The increasing availability of hundreds of whole bacterial genomes provides opportunities
for enhanced understanding of the genes and alleles responsible for clinically important …

Genome-wide identification of host-segregating epidemiological markers for source attribution in Campylobacter jejuni

A Thépault, G Méric, K Rivoal, B Pascoe… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Campylobacter is among the most common worldwide causes of bacterial gastroenteritis.
This organism is part of the commensal microbiota of numerous host species, including …