Table 2.

Distribution of Campylobacter spp. by host species [15]

	Cattle	Sheep
Number of faecal-pat samples	3300	960
Number of potential isolates (4 per pat)	13 200	3840
Number of isolates grown (% of potential isolates)	7779 (58·9%)	1720 (44·8%)
Campylobacter jejuni (% of actual isolates)	1857 (23·9%)	450 (26%)
Campylobacter coli (% of actual isolates)	346 (4·4%)	815 (47·4%)
Campylobacter fetus (% of actual isolates)	871 (6·8%)	211 (12·3%)
Campylobacter hyointestinalis (% of actual isolates)	380 (4·9%)	0
Campylobacter lari (% of actual isolates)	26 (0·33%)	8 (0·05%)