Publisher's Synopsis
This book, the first major text on Campylobacter infections in over 8 years, summarizes the major advances in understanding the clinical disease and epidemiology of infection. Probably the most common cause of sporadic bacterial diarrheal illness, this pathogen accounts for an estimated 2.4 million cases in the United States. "May it suffice to say that not a single clinical microbiologist or food specialist should consider her or himself up–to–date in the field of campylobacteriosis unless having a copy of Nachamkin et al on the desk – or, at the very least, access to it through the departmental library.
