Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Mar;48(3):977-80. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01439-09. Epub 2010 Jan 6.
Reptile Campylobacter fetus isolates and closely related strains causing human disease were characterized by multilocus sequence typing. They shared approximately 90% nucleotide sequence identity with classical mammalian C. fetus, and there was evidence of recombination among members of these two groups. The reptile group represents a possible separate genomospecies capable of infecting humans.
爬行动物弯曲杆菌胎儿分离株和密切相关的菌株引起人类疾病的特征是多位点序列分型。它们与经典哺乳动物弯曲杆菌胎儿共享约 90%的核苷酸序列同一性,并且这两个群体的成员之间存在重组的证据。爬行动物组代表了一种可能的单独的基因组种,能够感染人类。