摘要:Campylobacter is the most common cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in Australia.1The incuba-tion period is usually between 2 and 5 days but can range from 1 to 10 days.2Symptoms include diarrhoea (often bloody), fever and abdominal pain, and can persist for 7 days or longer.2The infective dose required to cause illness is as low as 500 organisms.3,4Despite a high number of noti-fications, outbreaks caused by Campylobacter are uncommonly detected