Trudy Wassenaar

 IntroductionCampylobacter infections pose a serious public health problem; the incidence of campylobacteriosis has progressively increased in developed countries, and the pathogen is now considered the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis throughout the world (Humphrey et al. 2007; FAO⁄WHO, 2009). Thermophilic Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are the most frequently is ...

 1. IntroductionCampylobacter is one of the most common causes of food-borne bacterial disease in humans worldwide. In the European Union, the most commonly species detected associated with campylobacteriosis are C. jejuni, followed by C. coli [1,2]. These thermophilic species asymptomatically colonize the intestinal mucosa of a wide variety of birds and mammals, including food-producing anim ...

Originally published in Letters in Applied Microbiology  Introduction Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most common causes of food-borne bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide; in the European Union, it is the most common cause, before Salmonella (Bronzwaer et al. 2009). In the United States, 1Æ4 million yearly cases were estimated (Mead et al. 1999), though reported cases have since sh ...

1Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway2, Molecular Microbiology and Genomics Consultants, Zotzenheim, Germany3Ruminant Nutrition and Microbiology, AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand4Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA5Departmen ...

One of our most effective strategies to combat bacterial infections is rapidly becoming ineffective: more and more bacteria are developing resistance against commonly used antibiotics. This is a worrysome development, that, though been recognized for decades, seems to have worsened lately. It is perceived that the speed of resistance development has overhauled the rate of developing alternative dr ...