Our data show that the outbreak clone had been colonizing the slaughterhouse and was cross-contaminating chickens there. The geographic mobility of people and food necessitates proper epidemiologic investigations to avoid overestimation of the proportion of sporadic occurrence of campylobacteriosis.
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