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Campylobacter jejuni is among the leading bacterial causes of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. To study the clinical features of such infections, as well as changes in the antibiotic susceptibility of C. jejuni, researchers at a hospital in Beijing reviewed cases of patients aged ≥14 with C. jejuni gastroenteritis who were treated at their institution between 1994 and 2010 (N=492).
Incidence of C. jejuni gastroenteritis was highest in individuals aged 14 to 24 and declined with age thereafter. All the patients reported acute diarrhea, 85% complained of abdominal pain, and 65% had fever. In 1994–1998, resistance to fluoroquinolones, gentamicin, and cefuroxime was demonstrated in 45%, 0%, and 0% of isolates, respectively, whereas in 2005–2010,…