Association of Campylobacter jejuni Cj0859c gene (fspA) variants with different C. jejuni multilocus sequence types.
Cj0859c variants fspA1 and fspA2 from 669 human, poultry, and bovine Campylobacter jejuni strains were associated with certain hosts and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) types. Among the human and poultry strains, fspA1 was significantly (P < 0.001) more common than fspA2. FspA2 amino acid sequences were the most diverse and were often truncated.
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Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, P.O. Box 66, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. astrid.dehaan@helsinki.fi
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D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D016123:Campylobacter jejuni / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002417:Cattle; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011200:Poultry; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
D004269:DNA, Bacterial