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

Emerging Campylobacter species highlights

• Aagaard, M. E. Y. et al. (2021) ‘High genetic diversity in Campylobacter concisus isolates from patients with microscopic colitis’, Gut Pathogens, 13(1), p. 3. doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s13099-020-00397-y.
• Bian, X. et al. (2020) ‘Campylobacter Abundance in Breastfed Infants and Identification of a New Species in the Global Enterics Multicenter Study’, mSphere, 5(1). doi: http://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00735-19.
• Guk, J.-H. et al. (2019) ‘Hyper-Aerotolerant Campylobacter coli from Duck Sources and Its Potential Threat to Public Health: Virulence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Genetic Relatedness’, Microorganisms, 7(11), p. 579. doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7110579.
• Hetman, B. M. et al. (2020) ‘“These Aren’t the Strains You’re Looking for”: Recovery Bias of Common Campylobacter jejuni Subtypes in Mixed Cultures’, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00541.
• Liu, F. et al. (2020) ‘Analysis of complete Campylobacter concisus genomes identifies genomospecies features, secretion systems and novel plasmids and their association with severe ulcerative colitis’, Microbial Genomics, 6(11). doi: http://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000457.
• Mutschall, S. K. et al. (2020) ‘Campylobacter jejuni Strain Dynamics in a Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Population in Southern Ontario, Canada: High Prevalence and Rapid Subtype Turnover’, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00027.
• Nadin-Davis, S. A. et al. (2021) ‘A comparison of fourteen fully characterized mammalian-associated Campylobacter fetus isolates suggests that loss of defense mechanisms contribute to high genomic plasticity and subspecies evolution’, PeerJ, 9, p. e10586. doi: http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10586.
• Tejera, N. et al. (2020) ‘Genome-Scale Metabolic Model Driven Design of a Defined Medium for Campylobacter jejuni M1cam’, Frontiers in Microbiology, 11. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01072.