Patent ID: 8637249

Claim:
A method for specifically detecting a Campylobacter target nucleic acid in a sample comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a sample suspected of containing at least a Campylobacter target nucleic acid; (b) contacting said sample with at least two amplification oligomers that stably hybridize to a C. jejuni target nucleic acid and a C. coli , a C. lari or a C. coli and a C. lari target nucleic acid, wherein a first of said amplification oligomers comprises a target hybridizing sequence that is 15 to 45 nucleotides in length and is configured to target a sequence in a region of a Campylobacter 16S rRNA gene corresponding to nucleotides 108 to 150 of GenBank Accession No.: AF393202.1, gi:20378208 and wherein a second of said amplification oligomers comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7; (c) performing an in vitro nucleic acid amplification reaction wherein any of a C. jejuni target nucleic acid, a C. coli target nucleic acid and a C. lari target nucleic acid present in said sample is used as a template for generating an amplification product; and (d) performing a nucleic acid detection reaction that detects said amplification product to determine whether a Campylobacter target nucleic acid was present in said sample.