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Volume 10, Number 10—October 2004
Dispatch

Arcobacter Species in Humans1

Olivier Vandenberg*†Comments to Author , Anne Dediste*, Kurt Houf‡, Sandra Ibekwem§, Hichem Souayah*, Sammy Cadranel¶, Nicole Douat#, G. Zissis*, J.-P. Butzler§, and P. Vandamme‡
Author affiliations: *Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium; †Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium; ‡Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; §Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; ¶Queen Fabiola University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium; #Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium; **Queen Fabiola University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

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Table 1

Distribution of Campylobacter spp. and related organisms isolated from 1,906 patients,a January 1995–December 2002, and comparison of recovery by isolation method usedb

Species No. (%) No. of patients positive for Campylobacter by one medium or a combination of media
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.

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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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