Epidemiology, relative invasive ability, molecular characterization, and competitive performance of Campylobacter jejuni strains in the chicken gut

Comparative studies are carried out on two Campylobacter jejuni strains, T1016 and Pstau, in relation to their prevalence in human infections and on poultry meat in a specific geographical area of New Zealand. The strain comparisons have used an in vitro cell invasion assay, microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization, flagellin A (FlaA) characteristics obtained from amino acid sequences, and competitive-exclusion experiments with chickens.