Causes acute gastrointestinal illness, diarrhea with or without blood, abdominal pain, and fever. It may cause pseudoappendicitis and, rarely, septicemia and arthritis. It is usually a brief, self-limiting disease. In humans the asymptomatic carrier state is rare. Reinfection is possible in both animals and man.
Rapid diagnosis is done with dark field or phase contrast microscopy of fecal material.
Warthin Starry stain and histo 4. Various techniques are being used to detect seroconversion to the antigens of Campylobacter. Animals can be treated based on culture and sensitivity. Currently erythromycin is the drug of choice, but does not eliminate the carrier state. Tetracycline or ciprofloxacin are alternatives.