Campylobacter Campylobacteriosis is a notifiable disease—contact your local public health unit if two or more adults or children in the education and care service have campylobacteriosis. Description is a bacteria that causes gastroenteritis. Symptoms of Campylobacter campylobacter infection may include diarrhoea (sometimes with blood in it), a low-grade fever, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. is found in animal faeces, including that of farm animals and Campylobacter household pets. People and animals can carry and spread the infection even if they do not have any symptoms. How does it spread? The disease is spread when bacteria enter the body by the mouth. This can happen by: eating undercooked meat, especially chicken drinking unpasteurised milk or contaminated drinking water eating cooked food that has been contaminated with bacteria from raw food handling infected animals and not washing your hands afterwards. Infection can also be spread from person to person when: people with in faeces do not wash their hands effectively after Campylobacter going to the toilet; contaminated hands can then contaminate food, which may be eaten by other people your hands become contaminated when changing the nappy of an infected child and you do not wash them effectively. Incubation period The incubation period is usually 2–5 days after coming in contact with the bacteria, but may range from 1–10 days. Infectious period A person is infectious for as long as the bacteria are in faeces. This may be for a few days or weeks after the symptoms have stopped. Exclusion period People with campylobacter infection should be excluded until diarrhoea has stopped for at least 24 hours.
Campylobacter Campylobacteriosis is a notifiable disease—contact your local public health unit if two or more adults or children in the education and care service have campylobacteriosis. Description Campylobacter is a bacteria that causes gastroenteritis. Symptoms of campylobacter infection may include diarrhoea (sometimes with blood in it), a low-grade fever, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. Campylobacter is found in animal faeces, including that of farm animals and household pets. People and animals can carry and spread the infection even if they do not have any symptoms. How does it spread? The disease is spread when bacteria enter the body by the mouth. This can happen by: eating undercooked meat, especially chicken drinking unpasteurised milk or contaminated drinking water eating cooked food that has been contaminated with bacteria from raw food handling infected animals and not washing your hands afterwards. Infection can also be spread from person to person when: people with Campylobacter in faeces do not wash their hands effectively after going to the toilet; contaminated hands can then contaminate food, which may be eaten by other people your hands become contaminated when changing the nappy of an infected child and you do not wash them effectively. Incubation period The incubation period is usually 2–5 days after coming in contact with the bacteria, but may range from 1–10 days. Infectious period A person is infectious for as long as the bacteria are in faeces. This may be for a few days or weeks after the symptoms have stopped. Exclusion period People with campylobacter infection should be excluded until diarrhoea has stopped for at least 24 hours.