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    Campylobacter are microaerophilic, Gram-negative bacteria that are the leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. They are commonly found in the intestines of animals. People can become infected through eating undercooked meat or drinking raw milk. Campylobacter infection may cause intestinal diseases like diarrhea or extraintestinal diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Treatment involves rehydration and antibiotics like ciprofloxacin or macrolides depending on the species. Prevention focuses on proper food handling and cooking practices.

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    Campylobacter are microaerophilic, Gram-negative bacteria that are the leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. They are commonly found in the intestines of animals. People can become infected through eating undercooked meat or drinking raw milk. Campylobacter infection may cause intestinal diseases like diarrhea or extraintestinal diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Treatment involves rehydration and antibiotics like ciprofloxacin or macrolides depending on the species. Prevention focuses on proper food handling and cooking practices.

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    Campylobacter are microaerophilic, Gram-negative bacteria that are the leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. They are commonly found in the intestines of animals. People can become infected through eating undercooked meat or drinking raw milk. Campylobacter infection may cause intestinal diseases like diarrhea or extraintestinal diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Treatment involves rehydration and antibiotics like ciprofloxacin or macrolides depending on the species. Prevention focuses on proper food handling and cooking practices.

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    Campylobacter are microaerophilic, Gram-negative bacteria that are the leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness worldwide. They are commonly found in the intestines of animals. People can become infected through eating undercooked meat or drinking raw milk. Campylobacter infection may cause intestinal diseases like diarrhea or extraintestinal diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome. Treatment involves rehydration and antibiotics like ciprofloxacin or macrolides depending on the species. Prevention focuses on proper food handling and cooking practices.

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    Campilobacter

    yutika kun
    |MAY.17
    I. Characteristic
     Curved, spiral, S-shaped
     Microscopically resemble vibrios
     A single, polar flagellum provides the organism with its characteristic darting motility.
     Microaerophilic: they required oxygen but at lower concentrations than that found in air.
     They use a respiratory pathway and do not ferment carbohydrates
     Campylobacter infect the intestine and can cause ulcer-active, inflammatory lesions in the
    jejunum, ileum, or colon. Bacteremia may occur.

    II. Epidemiology
     They are widely distributed in nature as commensals of many different vertebrate species, and
    served as reservoirs of infection.
     Transmitted via fecal-oral route.

    III. Pathogenesis and clinical significance


     They may cause both intestinal and extraintestinal disease
     Bacterial food-borne illness
     Food infection: have longer incubation periods and required colonization by bacterium.
     Food poisoning: have shorter incubation periods and only required ingestion of the
    toxin.
     Campylobacter jejuni is a cause of both traveler’s diarrhea and pseudoappendicitis
    (symptoms simulating appendicitis without inflammation of the appendix).
     Virulence factors includes a cytotoxin that may be involved in inflammatory colitis and
    an enterotoxin that results in increased adenylyl cyclase activity and, therefore,
    electrolyte and fluid imbalance.

    IV. Laboratory identification


     Can be isolated from feces using special selective media and microaerophilic conditions

    V. Treatment and prevention


     Diarrhea should be treated symptomatically with fluid and electrolyte replacement.
     For c. jejuni ciprofloxacin is the drug of choice
     For C. fetus ampicillin or third-generation cephalosporins are effective
    Gram (-) rods o Curved, spiral, or S –shaped rods
    o Single, polar flagellum, resulting
    in characteristic darting motion
    o Microaerophilic
    Campylobacter o Do not ferment carbohydrates
    o Culture on selective medium

    species (blood agar containing antibiotics


    to inhibit growth of other fecal
    flora)

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