Editing Campylobacter (section)

== History ==
[[Theodor Escherich]] was the first to describe in 1886 what are known today as Campylobacters in the stool samples of infants, who perished from a disease he named "cholera infantum".<ref name="[[History]]">{{cite journal | vauthors = Samie A, Obi CL, Barrett LJ, Powell SM, Guerrant RL | title = Prevalence of Campylobacter species, Helicobacter pylori and Arcobacter species in stool samples from the Venda region, Limpopo, South Africa: studies using molecular diagnostic methods | journal = The Journal of Infection | volume = 54 | issue = 6 | pages = 558–66 | date = June 2007 | pmid = 17145081 | doi = 10.1016/j.jinf.2006.10.047 }}</ref> In the following years until the end of the century, a number of publications appeared, describing the occurrence of such "spirilla" in cases of "cholera-like" and "dysenteric" disease. These organisms were mainly found in the colon or associated with mucous in diarrhoeal stool specimens. ''Vibrio''-like bacteria were also described by Sir [[John McFadyean]] and [[Stewart Stockman|Stockman]] in 1913 in fetal tissues of aborted sheep.<ref name="pmid10081669">{{cite journal | vauthors = Altekruse SF, Stern NJ, Fields PI, Swerdlow DL | title = Campylobacter jejuni--an emerging foodborne pathogen | journal = Emerging Infectious Diseases | volume = 5 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–35 | date = 1999 | pmid = 10081669 | pmc = 2627687 | doi = 10.3201/eid0501.990104 | oclc = 677425436 }}</ref> For several years Campylobacters were continuously referred to as ‘‘Vibrio-like organisms’’, until 1963 when Sebald and Veron gave the name "''Campylobacter''" to the genus based on their shape and microaerophilic growth requirement and after showing significant biological differences with ''Vibrio'' species.<ref name="History" />