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Campylobacteriosis is an important infectious disease throughout the world, now recognized as one of the most frequent causes of bacterial diarrhea. With our new knowledge of Campylobacter jejuni as a human pathogen and its wide distribution in animal reservoirs have come significant advances in our knowledge of the epidemiologic characteristics of the infection. Although the vcehicles incriminated as sources of infection are widespread, most illnesses occur sporadically without a finite determination as to the mode of transmission. Factors that perpetuate the condition are unhygienic food handling and storage practices, environmental contamination from animal wastes and other sources, spreading the organism during animal slaughtering and processing and concentrating animals in brooding houses and feedlots. Close national and international cooperative efforts will be essential to reduce or eliminate the risk from this foodborne pathogen.