Campylobacter is one of the main causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans worldwide. The most frequent cause of food borne disease is diarrhoeal disease agents that account for more than half of the global burden of food borne diseases. Campylobacter species are widely spread in most warm-blooded animals. They are commonly established in food animals. Campylobacter colonizes the mucus that lines the epithelial cells mainly in the blind and small intestine, but it can also be seen in other parts of the intestine, the spleen and the liver. |
