Volume 8, Number 9—September 2002
Research
Molecular Characterization of Campylobacter jejuni Clones: A Basis for Epidemiologic Investigation
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 |