The effect of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli colonization on the gut morphology, functional integrity, and microbiota composition of female turkeys.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Ethics Department of the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Oldenburg, Germany. Work was carried out under the project license number 33.8-42502-04-19/3207. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that there are no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that there are no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This study was kindly funded by the German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany (grant numbers SR-767/8-1, AL-2182/2-1). The Open Access publication costs were also funded by the German Research Foundation (grant number LE 824/10-1) in conjunction with the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Hannover, Germany. None of the sources of funding contributed to the design of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or writing of the manuscript."