Lack of association between the presence of the pVir plasmid and bloody diarrhea in Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.
May 2006
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volume 44, issue 5 pp 1867-1868.
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The main mechanisms by which Campylobacter jejuni causes diarrhea are unknown. In contrast to a recent communication, we report here the absence of an association with the plasmid pVir in patients infected with C. jejuni who developed bloody diarrhea in The Netherlands, and we suggest a role for other virulence determinants.
Keywords
- Humans
- Netherlands/epidemiology
- Campylobacter Infections/epidemiology/*microbiology
- Campylobacter jejuni/*genetics/isolation & purification/pathogenicity
- Diarrhea/microbiology
- Enteritis/*microbiology
- Epidemiology, Molecular
- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/microbiology
- Genes, Bacterial
- Plasmids/genetics/isolation & purification
- Virulence/genetics
