“…There is an increasing body of literature detailing that Arcobacter is a consistent component of human sewage systems (Stampi et al, 1993(Stampi et al, , 1999Moreno et al, 2003;González et al, 2007Collado et al, 2008Collado et al, , 2010McLellan et al, 2010;Fisher et al, 2014;Merga et al, 2014;Banting et al, 2016;Webb et al, 2016b), likely able to replicate outside of a vertebrate host within the sewage infrastructure system and wastewater treatment plants Shanks et al, 2013, Fisher et al, 2014. This supports the observation of the levels of Arcobacter found in wastewater being much higher than expected based on human carriage rates.…”