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Campylobacter enteritis – the first five years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

M. B. Skirrow
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Worcester Royal Infirmary, Castle Street, Worcester WR1 3AS
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Five years have passed since Campylobacter jejuni became generally recognized as a common cause of acute diarrhoea (Skirrow, 1977) – although the essential scientific discovery which led to this had been made several years earlier (Butzler et al. 1973) – so this is an appropriate time to take stock of what has happened in that time and consider what we might usefully be doing to control the disease.

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