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Culture Methods to Determine the Limit of Detection and Survival in Transport Media of Campylobacter Jejuni in Human Fecal Specimens
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Isolation of Campylobacter from human and other sources in Bombay
1Sir Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Medical Research Society, Bombay.
Indian Journal of Pathology & Microbiology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
Out of 720 faecal samples studied from acute diarrhoeal patients comprising 645 children and 75 adults, only 4 yielded Campylobacter strains. No Campylobacter was isolated from 300 control faecal samples. One isolate each of C. Coli and C. jejuni was obtained from faecal samples of chicken and goat respectively. No Campylobacter was isolated from 10 sewage samples studied.
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