A carbohydrate-based chicken vaccine to prevent Campylobacter jejuni colonisation

• Research unit: INNOSUISSE
• Project number: 14021.2;8 PFLS-LS

Short description (German)

A carbohydrate-based chicken vaccine to prevent Campylobacter jejuni colonisation

Short description (English)

A carbohydrate-based chicken vaccine to prevent Campylobacter jejuni colonisation

Abstract (German)

Thermophilic Campylobacter are the most frequent bacterial zoonosis and cause of food poisoning in humans. Severe complications (Miller-Fisher and Guillain-Barré syndromes, reactive arthritis) occur in about 1 ¿ of the cases. The annual consequential costs are huge (18 billion USD in the USA alone). A frequent source of infection is poultry meat that has been contaminated during slaughter. Malcisbo develops a vaccine to prevent the colonisation of the chicken gut with Campylobacter jejuni. To date there are no commercial vaccines available.

Abstract (English)

Thermophilic Campylobacter are the most frequent bacterial zoonosis and cause of food poisoning in humans. Severe complications (Miller-Fisher and Guillain-Barré syndromes, reactive arthritis) occur in about 1 ¿ of the cases. The annual consequential costs are huge (18 billion USD in the USA alone). A frequent source of infection is poultry meat that has been contaminated during slaughter. Malcisbo develops a vaccine to prevent the colonisation of the chicken gut with Campylobacter jejuni. To date there are no commercial vaccines available.