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Campylobacter in Animals

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Physiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 6032

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Prabhat Talukdar

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Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-7520, USA
Interests: pathogenesis; food pathogen; Enterobacteriaceae; bacterial genomics; antimicrobial resistance; virulence determinants; effector proteins

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Campylobacter are a genetically diverse group of Gram-negative bacteria that are widely distributed in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded animals. Campylobacter species are generally found as commensal organisms in animals and in birds. However, some species of Campylobacter cause a range of diseases in animals including bacterial enteritis, infectious infertility and abortion. Campylobacter are also important zoonotic pathogens and one of the leading causes of food-borne infections in humans worldwide. Although infections caused by Campylobacter are self-limited, these bacteria can cause secondary infection, resulting in death in animals and humans. Both bacteria (flagella, secreted proteins, toxins) and host factors (age, immune system) are responsible for the pathogenesis of and susceptibility to Campylobacter infection. Proper disease control and treatment measures are needed to limit Campylobacter-associated infections in animals.

Our understanding of Campylobacter and its related diseases in animals is limited and needs proper attention. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the latest advances in the disease pathobiology and epidemiology of Campylobacter infections in animals. In this Special Issue of Animals, we invite original research papers and review articles concerning all kinds of interactions (epidemiology, disease mechanism, bacterial genomics) between these bacteria and animals.

Dr. Prabhat Talukdar
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Campylobacter 
  • enteritis 
  • abortion 
  • infertility
  • ruminants
  • pathobiology
  • epidemiology
  • genomics
  • disease control

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Wind Speed and Landscape Context Mediate Campylobacter Risk among Poultry Reared in Open Environments
by Olivia M. Smith, Kevin A. Cornell, Michael S. Crossley, Rocio Crespo, Matthew S. Jones, William E. Snyder and Jeb P. Owen
Animals 2023, 13(3), 492; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13030492 - 31 Jan 2023
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Foodborne pathogens cause over 9 million illnesses in the United States each year, and Campylobacter from chickens is the largest contributor. Rearing poultry outdoors without the use of antibiotics is becoming an increasingly popular style of farming; however, little is understood about how [...] Read more.
Foodborne pathogens cause over 9 million illnesses in the United States each year, and Campylobacter from chickens is the largest contributor. Rearing poultry outdoors without the use of antibiotics is becoming an increasingly popular style of farming; however, little is understood about how environmental factors and farm management alter pathogen prevalence. Our survey of 27 farms in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, USA, revealed a diversity of management practices used to rear poultry in the open environment. Here, we assess environmental and management factors that impact Campylobacter spp. prevalence in 962 individual chicken fecal samples from 62 flocks over a three-year period. We detected Campylobacter spp. in 250/962 (26.0%) of fecal samples screened, in 69.4% (43/62) of flocks, and on 85.2% (23/27) of farms. We found that Campylobacter spp. prevalence was predicted to increase in poultry on farms with higher average wind speeds in the seven days preceding sampling; on farms embedded in more agricultural landscapes; and in flocks typified by younger birds, more rotations, higher flock densities, and the production of broilers. Collectively, our results suggest that farms in areas with higher wind speeds and more surrounding agriculture face greater risk of Campylobacter spp. introduction into their flocks. Full article
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A Systematic Review on the Role of Wildlife as Carriers and Spreaders of Campylobacter spp.
by Andrea Margarita Olvera-Ramírez, Neil Ross McEwan, Karen Stanley, Remedios Nava-Diaz and Gabriela Aguilar-Tipacamú
Animals 2023, 13(8), 1334; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081334 - 13 Apr 2023
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Campylobacter spp. are important zoonotic pathogens and can cause one of the main bacterial diarrheal diseases worldwide. Research in the context of infection arising from transmission from other humans and other vertebrates has been extensive. A large fraction of these investigations has focused [...] Read more.
Campylobacter spp. are important zoonotic pathogens and can cause one of the main bacterial diarrheal diseases worldwide. Research in the context of infection arising from transmission from other humans and other vertebrates has been extensive. A large fraction of these investigations has focused on domestic animals; however, there are also a number of publications which either totally, or at least in part, consider the role of wild or feral animals as carriers or spreaders of Campylobacter spp. Here, we carry out a systematic review to explore the role played by wild vertebrates as sources of Campylobacter spp. with a compilation of prevalence data for more than 150 species including reptiles, mammals and birds. We found that numerous vertebrate species can act as carriers of Campylobacter species, but we also found that some host specificity may exist, reducing the risk of spread from wildlife to domestic animals or humans. Full article
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