Abstract
Campylobacters are found in persons or animals with diarrhoeal disease or associated with abortion in animals for many years, but a firm link with human disease is not confirmed until relatively recently. The significance of campylobacters as the most common cause of bacterial enteric disease is now scientifically well established but it is not yet widely recognized by the public. Campylobacters are slender helical or curved Gram negative rods that are highly motile by a single polar flagellum at one or both ends of the cell Their metabolism is respiratory and chemo organotrophic, they have an intact tricarboxylic acid cycle but do not ferment or oxidize sugars. Campylobacter species are worldwide in distribution; many of the species recovered from animals are commensals on the oral and gastro-intestinal mucosa. They also include in their number some of the most common infections of humans and domesticated animals and livestock.
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