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SUMMARY:The bacteriophage carrier state of Campylobacter - Professor Ian C
 onnerton\, Northern Foods Chair of Food Safety\, Division of Food Sciences
 \, School of Biosciences\, Sutton Bonington Campus\, Loughborough\, United
  Kingdom
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DTEND:20170118T100000Z
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CONTACT:Ilana Spilka
DESCRIPTION:Campylobacters are a common cause of human diarrhoeal disease 
 worldwide.  Amongst campylobacters recovered from biofilms after phage inf
 ection we recovered bacteria that had established a relationship with the 
 bacteriophage typical of the carrier state life cycle (CSLC). In CSLC cult
 ures bacteria and bacteriophages remain associated in equilibrium upon ser
 ial propagation (Siringan et al.\, 2014 Open Biology DOI: 10.1098/rsob.130
 200). The association confers a survival advantage in extra-intestinal env
 ironments to the bacteria but a lack of motility results in an inability t
 o colonise chickens. However\, CSLC cultures can release phage particles t
 o prospect for new host bacteria.
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