Highlights from the last 2 years in Campy

It has been two years since the last major Campylobacter meeting, and there have been a number of exciting publications during that time. We have catalogued some of the highlights here.

Click a topic to see a list of publications:

• AMR
• Applied - vaccines, control strategies, feed additives, farms, chickens
• Clinical micro/outbreaks/epidemiology and public health
• Emerging Campylobacter species
• Global differences in Campylobacter epidemiology
• Host adaptation/evolution
• Immunology and Host response
• Pathogenicity and Virulence Factors
• Survival

AMR highlights

• Aksomaitiene, J. et al. (2020) ‘Whole Genome Sequence-Based Prediction of Resistance Determinants in High-Level Multidrug-Resistant Campylobacter jejuni Isolates in Lithuania’, Microorganisms, 9(1). doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010066.
• Elmi, A. et al. (2020) ‘Revisiting Campylobacter jejuni Virulence and Fitness Factors: Role in Sensing, Adapting, and Competing’, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, p. 607704. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.607704.
• Mourkas, E. et al. (2019) ‘Gene pool transmission of multidrug resistance among Campylobacter from livestock, sewage and human disease’, Environmental Microbiology, 21(12), pp. 4597–4613. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14760.
• Rokney, A. et al. (2020) ‘WGS-Based Prediction and Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni Isolates From Israel’, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, p. 365. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.00365.
• Yao, H. et al. (2020) ‘Emergence of a Novel tet(L) Variant in Campylobacter spp. of Chicken Origin in China’, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 65(1). doi: http://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01622-20.
• Zhao, S. et al. (2019) ‘Genomic Analysis of Emerging Florfenicol-Resistant Campylobacter coli Isolated from the Cecal Contents of Cattle in the United States’, mSphere, 4(3). doi: http://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00367-19.