[The potentials for the laboratory diagnosis of infections caused by bacteria in the genus Campylobacter].

Information on the laboratory diagnostics of Campylobacter infections, carried out with the use of traditional method and molecular biology methods which based on the study of the genetic apparatus of infective agents, is summarized. Classical bacteriological analysis ensuring the isolation and biochemical identification of bacteria, up to the determination of their species, complex bacteriological analysis permitting their isolation and phenotypic identification, as well as genotypic diagnostics in reference laboratories (the detection and identification of infective agents by means of molecular hybridization or gene amplification), may be used.