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Molecular genetics of campylobacter

Reference	BBS/E/F/00041209
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Mr Bruce MacKenzie Pearson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	2,429,856
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2000
End date	31/03/2005
Duration	60 months

Abstract

Campylobacter jejuni is the major cause of food-borne enteric disease in many industrialised countries. Campylobacter is a natural inhabitant of the gastrointestinal tract of birds and transmission is commonly via contamination of food with uncooked or under cooked poultry. Despite widespread recognition of its importance as a major source of food-borne illness there is a paucity of information about of how the organism causes disease and how it survives under the various different environmental conditions essential for its transmission and infectivity. Our research on pathogenesis and stress response exploits the recently published genome sequence and state-of-the-art technologies (microarrays, bioinformatics tools and proteomics) to investigate the function of genes involved in these processes. Our research on Campylobacter is likely to create new opportunities for the eradication and control of Campylobacter in the food chain and will have important implications for the development of vaccines, anti-infectives and antimicrobials

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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