The draft genome sequences of 56 Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli strains. Campylobacter coli RM1876

The food-borne pathogens Campylobacter jejuni (Cj) and C. coli (Cc) produce capsular polysaccharides (CPS) that are the major antigenic determinants of the classical Penner serotyping system that distinguishes these Campylobacters into 65 groups. In order to examine the genomic diversity of Cj and Cc, and to identify DNA signatures for the development of faster and cheaper typing assays, we have determined the draft genome sequences of 38 Cj and 18 Cc strains representing 56 different Penner serotypes.

食源性致病菌空肠弯曲杆菌（Campylobacter jejuni, Cj）与结肠弯曲杆菌（C. coli, Cc）可产生荚膜多糖（CPS），该多糖是经典Penner血清分型系统的主要抗原决定簇，该系统可将这类弯曲杆菌划分为65个血清群。为探究空肠弯曲杆菌与结肠弯曲杆菌的基因组多样性，并鉴定可用于开发更快速、低成本分型检测方法的DNA特征标签，本研究测定了涵盖56种不同Penner血清型的38株空肠弯曲杆菌（Cj）与18株结肠弯曲杆菌（Cc）的草图基因组序列。