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

Global differences in Campylobacter epidemiology - Highlights

• Bravo, V. et al. (2021) ‘Genomic analysis of the diversity, antimicrobial resistance and virulence potential of clinical Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains from Chile’, PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 15(2), p. e0009207. doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009207.
• Chen, D. et al. (2020) ‘Campylobacter Colonization, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, Stunting, and Associated Risk Factors Among Young Children in Rural Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study From the Campylobacter Genomics and Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (CAGED) Project’, Frontiers in Public Health, 8, p. 615793. doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.615793.
• Mouftah, S. F. et al. (2021) ‘Stress resistance associated with multi-host transmission and enhanced biofilm formation at 42 °C among hyper-aerotolerant generalist Campylobacter jejuni’, Food Microbiology, 95, p. 103706. doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fm.2020.103706.
• Pascoe, B. et al. (2020) ‘Genomic epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni associated with asymptomatic pediatric infection in the Peruvian Amazon’, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(8), p. e0008533. doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008533.