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.

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Clinical microbiology highlights

  • Arning, N. et al. (2021) ‘Machine learning to predict the source of campylobacteriosis using whole genome data’, bioRxiv, p. 2021.02.23.432443. doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.23.432443.
  • Bandoy, D. D. R. and Weimer, B. C. (2020) ‘Biological Machine Learning Combined with Campylobacter Population Genomics Reveals Virulence Gene Allelic Variants Cause Disease’, Microorganisms, 8(4), p. 549. doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8040549.
  • Barker, C. R. et al. (2020) ‘Microevolution of Campylobacter jejuni during long-term infection in an immunocompromised host’, Scientific Reports, 10(1), p. 10109. doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66771-7.
  • Brehony, C. et al. (2021) ‘Establishment of sentinel surveillance of human clinical campylobacteriosis in Ireland’, Zoonoses and Public Health, 68(2), pp. 121–130. doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12802.
  • Butkevych, E. et al. (2020) ‘Contribution of Epithelial Apoptosis and Subepithelial Immune Responses in Campylobacter jejuni-Induced Barrier Disruption’, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00344.
  • Jehanne, Q. et al. (2020) ‘Genome-Wide Identification of Host-Segregating Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms for Source Attribution of Clinical Campylobacter coli Isolates’, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 86(24). doi: http://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01787-20.
  • Russell, K. M. et al. (2021) Transcriptomic analysis of caecal tissue in inbred chicken lines that exhibit heritable differences in resistance to Campylobacter jejuni. preprint. In Review. doi: http://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-198715/v1.