Download Source attribution January to December 2016 of human Campylobacter jejuni cases from the Manawatu

This report proportionally attributes human cases of campylobacteriosis to reservoir sources in the Manawatu over the period January to December 2016. Modelling attributed 48–70% of the human cases to poultry and 25-47% to ruminants. These proportions refer only to the animal reservoirs associated with strains and do not examine the pathway of exposure to Campylobacter, e.g. direct animal contact, meat from the reservoir animal, other foods, drinking or recreational, water, etc.