Investigating locally relevant risk factors for Campylobacter infection in Australia: protocol for a case-control study and genomic analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The CampySource project aims to identify risk factors for human Campylobacter infection in Australia. We will investigate locally relevant risk factors and those significant in international studies in a case-control study. Case isolates and contemporaneous isolates from food and animal sources will be sequenced to conduct source attribution modelling, and findings will be combined with the case-control study in a source-assigned analysis.

Methods and analysis

The case-control study will include 1200 participants (600 cases and 600 controls) across three regions in Australia. Cases will be recruited from campylobacteriosis notifications to health departments. Only those with a pure and viable Campylobacter isolate will be eligible for selection to

SUBMITTER: Varrone L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318611 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature