Inter-laboratory optimization for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni in canine fecal samples using gyrA PCR
Sara D. Lawhon, Kevin J. Cummings, Jing Wu, Ching Yuan Yang, Nicholas Whipple, Melanie Prarat Koscielny, Samantha Lindemann, Shannon Kiener, Matthew Kmet, Ravinder Reddy, Laura B. Goodman, Rebecca J. Franklin-Guild, Kelly Sams, Brittany Cronk, Jing Cui, Kerri Lawrence, Qirui Zhang, Yan Zhang, Steven Ensley, Karen Olsen, John Tomaszewski, Zhenyu Shen, Shuping Zhang, Sarmila Dasgupta, Shannon Mann, Amar Patil, Siddhartha Thakur, Shelley C. Rankin, Laura Ruesch, Nuria Garcia-Fernandez, Jake Guag, Sarah M. Nemser, Renate Reimschuessel · 2026
Read Inter-laboratory optimization for the detection of Campylobacter jejuni in canine fecal samples using gyrA PCR by Sara D. Lawhon, Kevin J. Cummings, Jing Wu, Ching Yuan Yang, Nicholas Whipple, Melanie Prarat Koscielny, Samantha Lindemann, Shannon Kiener, Matthew Kmet, Ravinder Reddy, Laura B. Goodman, Rebecca J. Franklin-Guild, Kelly Sams, Brittany Cronk, Jing Cui, Kerri Lawrence, Qirui Zhang, Yan Zhang, Steven Ensley, Karen Olsen, John Tomaszewski, Zhenyu Shen, Shuping Zhang, Sarmila Dasgupta, Shannon Mann, Amar Patil, Siddhartha Thakur, Shelley C. Rankin, Laura Ruesch, Nuria Garcia-Fernandez, Jake Guag, Sarah M. Nemser, Renate Reimschuessel (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13253555.txt.
Description
Sara Lawhon and a large multi-laboratory team standardise a dog stool test in this 2026 study. Campylobacter jejuni sickens over a million Americans a year, and a 2016–2018 outbreak traced the germ to pet dogs, yet dog samples are not routinely tested for it.
Twenty-seven analysts at nineteen laboratories ran a DNA test targeting the gyrA gene on seeded dog stool samples. Every analyst caught the germ at a high dose. Detection fell as doses dropped: 96 percent at a mid dose, 77 percent lower, and 40 percent at the lowest. Reading DNA straight from stool skips a growing step, cutting contamination risk and turnaround time for veterinary labs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sara D. Lawhon, Kevin J. Cummings, Jing Wu, Ching Yuan Yang, Nicholas Whipple, Melanie Prarat Koscielny, Samantha Lindemann, Shannon Kiener, Matthew Kmet, Ravinder Reddy, Laura B. Goodman, Rebecca J. Franklin-Guild, Kelly Sams, Brittany Cronk, Jing Cui, Kerri Lawrence, Qirui Zhang, Yan Zhang, Steven Ensley, Karen Olsen, John Tomaszewski, Zhenyu Shen, Shuping Zhang, Sarmila Dasgupta, Shannon Mann, Amar Patil, Siddhartha Thakur, Shelley C. Rankin, Laura Ruesch, Nuria Garcia-Fernandez, Jake Guag, Sarah M. Nemser, Renate Reimschuessel |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25001 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |