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campylobacters

campylobacters is the plural of campylobacter.

Meaning of campylobacter

Noun

campylobacter (plural campylobacters)

  1. Any bacteria of the genus Campylobacter; a principal cause of food poisoning.
    • These days, we can see how even small increases in temperature and rainfall around the world often lead to higher rates of disease, whether that’s malaria in Kenya and Ethiopia, Murray Valley encephalitis in southern Australia or campylobacter in Bangladesh.2023, Oliver Balch, “Animal, Mineral, Pathogen”, in Literary Review, number 520

Questions about campylobacters

What is campylobacters the plural of?
Campylobacters is the plural of campylobacter.

Words near campylobacters in the dictionary

  1. campylobacterial
  2. campylobacterioses
  3. campylobacteriosis
  4. campylobacterium
  5. campylobacterosis
  6. campylobacters
  7. campylomorph
  8. campylomorphs
  9. campylon
  10. campylophage
  11. campylophages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: campylobacters (page history and authors); campylobacter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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