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Molecular Epidemiology of <i>Mycobacterium avium</i> subsp. <i>paratuberculosis</i> Isolates Recovered from Wild Animal Species
1 Apr 2004
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Mycobacterial isolates were obtained by radiometric culture from 33 different species of captive or free-ranging animals (n = 106) and environmental sources (n = 3) from six geographic zones within the United States. The identities of all 109 isolates were confirmed by using mycobactin J dependence and characterization of five well-defined molecular markers, including two integration loci of IS900 (loci L1 and...
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