Bacteraemic enteritis due to Campylobacter jejuni.

Campylobacteriosis in an infectious disease of animals that is transmissable to man. The aetiological agents are members of the genus Campylobacter, a name compounded from the Greek campylo (,curved') and bacter ('rod'). I Members of this genus are small gram-negative, microaerophilic, curved-to-spiral rods that have a single polar flagellum. Representatives include pathogens for animals and man, as well as saprophytes and can be found in the intestinal tract and oral cavity. 2