PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 6 December 1979, pp. 898-903
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Campylobacter fetus Infections in Chlidren

Daniel E. Torphy MD1 and Walter W. Bond MS SM/AAM1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Maricopa County General Hospital, and Hepatitis Laboratory Divison, Center for Disease Control, Phoenix, Arizona

There has been a gradual accumulation of reported Campylobacter fetus human infections since the first description in 1947. The taxonomy ofthese fastidious and morphologically confusing organisms has been recently revised and, in the past few years, through the use of selective culture medium for stool isolation C fetus has been implicated as a frequent pathogen in children. There are three relatively distinct patterns of human C fetus infection. The first, most frequent, pattern of disease is enteritis which is usually uncomplicated and due to C fetus subsp jejuni. A second form of disease consists of focal infections, often associated with vasculitis and/or chronic bacteremia. These infections, due to C fetus subsp intestinalis, are seen most often in older, debilitated, or chronically ill men. The third pattern, perinatal infections causing abortion, prematurity, and neonatal meningitis, is the least frequent, but these infections are usually fatal to the fetus or infant and are also due to C fetus subsp intestinalis.

Submitted on January 5, 1979
Accepted on March 19, 1979




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