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Mucosal immune response in cattle with subclinical Johne's disease.
Veterinary pathology - 1 Mar 2006
Weiss D J, Evanson O A, Souza C D
Abstract excerpt
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic granulomatous enteritis of wild and domestic ruminants. During a long subclinical period, the organism persists in the intestine despite systemic cellular and humoral immune responses. To explore the mucosal immune response in Johne's disease, we isolated mononuclear leukocytes from the ileum of cows naturally...
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