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

Host adaptation and evolution highlights

• Parker et al (2021): ‘Genomic Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni Adapted to the Guinea Pig (Cavia porcellus) Host’, Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 11:607747. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.607747.
• Calland, J. K. et al. (2020) ‘Quantifying bacterial evolution in the wild: a birthday problem for Campylobacter lineages’, bioRxiv, p. 2020.12.02.407999. doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.02.407999.
• Costa, D. et al. (2021) ‘Pangenome analysis reveals genetic isolation in Campylobacter hyointestinalis subspecies adapted to different mammalian hosts’, Scientific Reports, 11(1), p. 3431. doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82993-9.
• Di Donato, G. et al. (2020) ‘Prevalence, Population Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance of Campylobacter coli Isolated in Italian Swine at Slaughterhouse’, Microorganisms, 8(2), p. 222. doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020222.
• Epping, L. et al. (2021) ‘Genome-wide insights into population structure and host specificity of Campylobacter jejuni’, bioRxiv, p. 2021.02.18.431648. doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.18.431648.
• Marotta, F., Di Marcantonio, L., et al. (2020) ‘Genotyping and Antibiotic Resistance Traits in Campylobacter jejuni and coli From Pigs and Wild Boars in Italy’, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 10, p. 592512. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2020.592512.
• Marotta, F., Janowicz, A., et al. (2020) ‘Molecular Characterization and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of C. jejuni Isolates from Italian Wild Bird Populations’, Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 9(4). doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9040304.
• Mourkas, E. et al. (2020) ‘Agricultural intensification and the evolution of host specialism in the enteric pathogen Campylobacter jejuni’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(20), pp. 11018–11028. doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917168117.
• 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.
• Pascoe, B. et al. (2019) ‘Domestication of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168’, Microbial Genomics, 5(7), p. e000279. doi: http://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000279.
• Taylor, A. J. et al. (2021) ‘Cross-species evolutionary rewiring in the enteric bacterium Campylobacter’, bioRxiv, p. 2021.03.15.435406. doi: http://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.15.435406.