title: Invasive and enterotoxic properties in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains isolated from humans and animals.
abstract: Invasive properties of 15 strains of thermotolerant Campylobacter (12 C. jejuni and 3 C. coli) were studied using HeLa cells cultures. In four of them (3 C. jejuni and 1 C. coli), randomly selected, intestinal perfusion experiments were conducted in order to asses enterotoxigenicity. All strains were able to invade HeLa cells. The number of invaded HeLa cells ranged from 3 to 46%. In addition to their invasive properties, the 4 strains used in perfusion experiments were able to induce either a net secretory flux or an impaired sodium transport.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Microbiología Clínica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Trabulsi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017000:Campylobacter coli / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D002415:Cats; D004285:Dogs; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000502:physiology*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D004768:Enterotoxins