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Campylobacter

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Campylobacter

The Campylobacter jejuni bacterium is one of the most common causes of diarrhoea in humans, and can be ingested in contaminated drinking water.

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Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Problem plants and microbes, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15524/campylobacter (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, published 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.