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Campylobacter upsaliensis: Another pathogen for consideration in the United States
Jaime A Labarca1, Joan Sturgeon, Lee Borenstein
1Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, USA.
Abstract:
While evaluating quinolone resistance in a sample of Campylobacter isolates recovered from patients with campylobacteriosis in Los Angeles County, California, in 1998, we discovered that the second most frequently isolated species was Campylobacter upsaliensis (6 [4%] of 155 isolates). The ability of laboratories to recover this species may be dependent on the culture conditions and the media used. Three dogs living in the households of 2 of these 6 patients had C. upsaliensis isolated in their stool specimens.