“…Mice with limited enteric flora and/or with spontaneous or targeted alterations in immune function have also been explored as possible models for C. jejuni infection, including nude BALB/c mice, C3H and SCID-C3H limited-flora mice, C.B-17-SCID-beige mice, and 129 ϫ C57BL/6 NF-B-deficient mice (16,40,56,73). Infant and adult mice have been inoculated intragastrically, intranasally, and intraperitoneally with C. jejuni for a variety of purposes including the elucidation of colonization and/or virulence mechanisms and host responses (27,29,30,59,64,67,73), screening of natural isolates or laboratory strains carrying spontaneous or targeted mutations that are thought to affect colonization and/or virulence (6,27,31,40,42,56,66,73), and evaluation of the efficacy of vaccines or therapeutic agents (4,36,58,73). However, to date, the majority of mouse models of Campylobacter infection are colonization models; if disease develops, it is inconsistent or atypical.…”