Clinico-endoscopic and morphologic characteristics of patients with Campylobacter infection

Bacteriological examination of feces of 120 patients with signs of acute gastroenterocolitis revealed C. jejuni infection in 19 (7 per cent) of them. There was a certain difference between the clinical course of C. jejuni infection and acute dysentery. The endoscopic examination of the large intestine in jejuni infection demonstrated acute hemorrhagic or catarrhal colitis and phenomena of acute exudative inflammation were found during histomorphological study. C. jejuni infection can be diagnosed on the basis of the clinico-epidemiological findings and the results of bacteriological examination of the patients' feces.