Clinical and epidemiological analysis of Campylobacter fetus subsp. fetus infections in humans and comparative genetic analysis with strains isolated from cattle.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on May 14, 2016

Authors

Robert Escher1, Colette Brunner2, Niklaus von Steiger3, Isabelle Brodard4, Sara Droz3, Carlos Abril4,5, Peter Kuhnert4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Spital Emmental, Burgdorf, Switzerland. robert.escher@spital-emmental.ch.
2: Department of Medicine, Spital Emmental, Burgdorf, Switzerland.
3: Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
4: Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
5: Current address: Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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