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The clinical epidemiology of campylobacteriosis in the UK, and many temperate climates, shows a striking seasonality, peaking in late spring /early summer. In the search for an environmental reservoir in the Lancaster area, it was found that samples from sewers leading from a local slaughter house yielded high numbers of thermophilic campylobacters in summer and lower numbers in winter1, and lead the authors to hypothesise that farm animals may exhibit a similar seasonality to that seen in human infections.
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Stanley, K.N., Wallace, J.S., Jones, K. (1996). The Seasonality of Thermophilic Campylobacters in Beef and Dairy Cattle. In: Newell, D.G., Ketley, J.M., Feldman, R.A. (eds) Campylobacters, Helicobacters, and Related Organisms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9558-5_30
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