Enteritis associated with Campylobacter laridis

J Clin Microbiol. 1987 Jan;25(1):10-2. doi: 10.1128/jcm.25.1.10-12.1987.

Abstract

Campylobacter laridis has occasionally been isolated from patients with diarrhea, but its clinical significance in this setting has yet to be established. We report a patient with a self-limited diarrheal illness whose stool cultures yielded C. laridis. The patient also developed a specific serum bactericidal antibody response to this strain of C. laridis, suggesting that the organism was causally related to the enteric illness.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antibodies, Bacterial / analysis
  • Campylobacter / immunology
  • Campylobacter / isolation & purification*
  • Campylobacter Infections / immunology
  • Campylobacter Infections / microbiology*
  • Diarrhea / microbiology
  • Enteritis / immunology
  • Enteritis / microbiology*
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Male

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial