Entry
Org code
cje
Name
Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni NCTC 11168 = ATCC 700819
Category
Reference genome
Annotation
yesShow organism
Taxonomy
Lineage
Bacteria; Campylobacterota; Epsilonproteobacteria; Campylobacterales; Campylobacteraceae; Campylobacter
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Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601 ]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610 ]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611 ]
BRITE hierarchy
Data source
Original DB
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H00321 Campylobacter infection
Comment
Microaerophilic, flagellate, spiral bacterium.
Leading cause of bacterial food-borne diarrhoeal disease throughout the world.
The most frequent antecedent to a form of neuromuscular paralysis known as Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Isolated from clinical sample in the UK in 1977.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
Length
1641481
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 1641481
Number of protein genes: 1572
Number of RNA genes: 56
Created
2000
Reference
Authors
Parkhill J, Wren BW, Mungall K, Ketley JM, Churcher C, Basham D, Chillingworth T, Davies RM, Feltwell T, Holroyd S, et al.
Title
The genome sequence of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni reveals hypervariable sequences.
Journal