Volume 8, Number 9—September 2002
Research
Molecular Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni Clones: A Basis for Epidemiologic Investigation
Kate E. Dingle*, Frances M. Colles*, Roisin Ure, Jaap A. Wagenaar‡, Birgitta Duim‡, Frederick J. Bolton, Andrew J. Fox§, David R.A. Wareing, and Martin C.J. Maiden*
Table 1
Sources of Cambylobacter jejuni isolates
| Source | Country of Origin |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | Others | Unspecified | ||
| Human disease | 370 | 79 | 25 | 27 | 501 |
| Chickens | 53 | 77 | 4 | 3 | 137 |
| Lamb/offal | 72 | - | - | - | 72 |
| Beef cattle/offal | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 52 |
| Sand from beaches | 52 | - | - | - | 52 |
| Total | 595 | 158 | 30 | 31 | 814 |
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