Volume 10, Number 10—October 2004
Dispatch
Arcobacter Species in Humans1
Table 1
Species | No. (%) | No. of patients positive for Campylobacter by one medium or a combination of media |
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BSM | ASM | FM | BSM + FM | BM + ASM | ASM + FM | All methods | ||
Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni | 1,471 (77.2) | 1,353 | 12 | 1,076 | 1,471 | 1,353 | 1,081 | 1,471 |
C. coli | 218 (11.4) | 199 | 5 | 174 | 218 | 199 | 174 | 218 |
C. upsaliensis | 85 (4.5) | 7 | 0 | 85 | 85 | 7 | 85 | 85 |
Arcobacter butzleri | 67 (3.5)c | 3 | 65 | 5 | 5 | 65 | 65 | 67 |
C. concisus | 27 (1.4) | 0 | 0 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
C. fetus subsp. fetus | 11 (0.6) | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
A. cryaerophilus | 10 (0.5) | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
C. curvus | 9 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
C. lari I | 3 (0.2) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
C. hyointestinalis | 2 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Helicobacter pullorum | 2 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
C. sputorum | 1 (0.1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 1,906 (100.0) | 1,565 | 91 | 1,394 | 1,835 | 1,636 | 1,468 | 1,906 |
aAt the Saint-Pierre, Brugmann, and Queen Fabiola University Hospitals.
bBSM, Butzler selective medium; ASM, Arcobacter selective medium; FM, filtration method.
cTwo of the 67 A. butzleri isolated were recovered by the filtration method (15) in use up to April 1995.
1Presented in part at the 11th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, Cancun, Mexico, Mar 4–8, 2004. (Abstract P09.030); and at the 12th International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms. Aarhus, Denmark, Sept 6–10, 2003 (Abstract K-07).
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