Campylobacter-infected chicken caecal tonsils. Campylobacter-infected chicken caecal tonsils

This dataset comprises RNA sequencing of the caecal tonsils of 23 broiler chickens naturally exposed to Campylobacter spp. under commercial farm conditions. 75 base pairs paired-end total RNA-seq stranded libraries were generated by Edinburgh Genomics and sequenced at a depth of >40 million reads using an Illumina HiSeq 4000. For each chicken, Campylobacter load (quantified as colony forming units per gram) in the caecum was determined by selective culture as described in Psifidi, et al. (2016) BMC Genomics, 17(1):293. As chickens were exposed naturally rather than being explicitly challenged with Campylobacter, bacterial load varies considerably between individuals.