Antibiotic resistance profiles of Campylobacter species in the South Africa private health care sector.

Introduction: There is a dearth of surveillance data on clinical Campylobacter in South Africa, particularly in the private healthcare environment. We investigated the prevalence of resistance to first-line antibiotics used to treat campylobacterioses in clinical Campylobacter isolates from a private pathology laboratory.

Methodology: Identification of the Campylobacter specific genes were confirmed by PCR.