Diarrheal Disease Associated with Campylobacter fetus Subspecies jejuni

Abstract

The strains of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni were isolated on stool culture from 6 of 29 patients with suspected infectious diarrhea during a five-month period (December, 1978 to April, 1979). This high incidence of Campylobacter enteritis coincided with many reports recently published in foreign countries in which the organism has proved to be a common cause of enteritis. The importance of Campylobacter as a new enteropathogen was discussed.