Campylobacter

CAMPYLOBACTER : AN ENTERIC MICROORGANISM

Campylobacter : An Enteric Microorganism (Name (Institution

Campylobacter : An Enteric Microorganism

History of Campylobacter

The initial discovery of Campylobacter was made by a German-Austrian pediatrician named Theodor Escherich in 1886 . His observation and description led him to conclude that these spiral shaped , non-culturable bacteria were capylobacters . In 1913 , Vibrio-like bacteria were isolated from the fetuses of aborted ovines by Stockman and McFadyean . It was followed by the discovery spiral shaped bacteria on the same ovine fetuses by Smith after five years . This led him to a conclusion

that these spiral microorganisms and the vibrio isolated by Stockman and McFadyean fit on the same species . Vibrio fetus was then proposed as name for these strains . In 1927 , Orcutt and Smith identified another cluster of Vibrio -like strain on the feces of bovines with dysentery and named them Vibrio jejuni . Another strain was also discovered in 1944 by Doyle on the feces of pigs with dysentery but was classified under the name of Vibrio coli (Vandamme , 2000 . By 1957 , Vibrio was discovered to cause human infections because of the bacteremia it causes (Pickering , Gold and Ruiz-Palacios , 2006 . Two more strains were discovered by Florent in 1959 , Vibrio fetus subsp . Venerealis and Vibrio fetus subsp . intestinalis which causes infectious fertility and sporadic abortion respectively . Several years have passed and the name Vibrio was changed to Campylobacter in 1963 after Veron and Sebald noticed their differential characteristics : low composition of DNA base nonfermentative metabolism , growth requiring less oxygen in comparison to...