Bridging the Gap: A Role for Campylobacter jejuni Biofilms

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Tram, Greg
Day, Christopher J
Korolik, Victoria
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2020
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Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in the developed world. Cases of Campylobacteriosis are common, as the organism is an avian commensal and is passed on to humans through contaminated poultry meat, water, and food preparation areas. Although typically a fastidious organism, C. jejuni can survive outside the avian intestinal tract until it is able to reach a human host. It has long been considered that biofilms play a key role in transmission of this pathogen. The aim of this review is to examine factors that trigger biofilm formation in C. jejuni. A range of environmental elements have been shown to initiate biofilm formation, which are then affected by a suite of intrinsic factors. We also aim to further investigate the role that biofilms may play in the life cycle of this organism.

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Microorganisms

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8

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3

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Biological sciences

Microbiology

Medical microbiology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Microbiology

biofilm

Campylobacter jejuni

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Tram, G; Day, CJ; Korolik, V, Bridging the Gap: A Role for Campylobacter jejuni Biofilms, Microorganisms, 2020, 8 (3), pp. 452:1-452:11

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