TY - JOUR AU - Sopwith, Will AU - Birtles, Andrew AU - Matthews, Margaret AU - Fox, Andrew AU - Gee, Steven AU - Painter, Michael AU - Regan, Martyn AU - Syed, Qutub AU - Bolton, Eric T1 - Identification of Potential Environmentally Adapted Campylobacter jejuni Strain, United Kingdom T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 11 SP - 1769 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In a study of Campylobacter infection in northwestern England, 2003–2006, C. jejuni multilocus sequence type (ST)–45 was associated with early summer onset and was the most prevalent C. jejuni type in surface waters. ST-45 is likely more adapted to survival outside a host, making it a key driver of transmission between livestock, environmental, and human settings. KW - Campylobacter jejuni KW - isolation KW - epidemiology KW - transmission KW - multilocus sequence typing KW - children KW - longitudinal studies KW - United Kingdom KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1411.071678 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/11/07-1678_article ER - End of Reference