Microbiology and Immunology 3820A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Campylobacter Jejuni, Campylobacter, Raw Milk

• School: Western University
• Department: Microbiology and Immunology
• Course: Microbiology and Immunology 3820A
• Professor: David Colby

Document Summary

Violent diarrhea: also transmitted through handling raw meat and cross-contamination of foods, automated poultry processing increases cross-contamination, can be grown from most poultry in stores, air chilling greatly reduces number of bacteria. Campylobacter enteritis: the most common cause of acute enteritis in developed countries, 2 closely related species: c. jejuni and c. coli . 100 serotypes: campylobacter jejuni causes 80-90% of infections, acute enterocolitis from salmonella or shigella, bacteremia and pseudo-appendicitis may occur. Ca(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e disti(cid:374)guished fro(cid:373) other (cid:272)auses just know they have diarrhea. 100 cases will present with other manifestations just (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause you ha(cid:448)e 2 of the sy(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s does(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ea(cid:374) you ha(cid:448)e that disease: most strains produce a cholera-like enterotoxin and one or more cytotoxins . People thought zika was associated you can get campylobacter enteritis at same time but you can get is from anywhere. Vibrio: mitole, oxidase positive (aerobic) gram negative curved rods, free living in marine or brackish water.