Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 138, Issue 10, Pages 1384-1390Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000488
Keywords
Campylobacter; infectious disease epidemiology; statistics; zoonotic foodborne diseases
Funding
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Veterinary Training Research Initiative
- National Centre for Zoonosis Research
- Medical Research Council [G0902153] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0902153] Funding Source: UKRI
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A total of 969 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni originating in the Preston, Lancashire postcode district over a 3-year period were characterized using multi-locus sequence typing. Recently developed statistical methods and a genetic model were used to investigate temporal, spatial, spatio-temporal and genetic variation in human C. jejuni infections. The analysis of the data showed statistically significant seasonal variation, spatial clustering, small-scale spatio-temporal clustering and spatio-temporal interaction in the overall pattern of incidence, and spatial segregation in cases classified according to their most likely species-of-origin.
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