Epidemiological evidence for<i>Mycobacterium avium</i>subspecies<i>paratuberculosis</i>as a cause of Crohn's disease

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Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic enteritis in ruminants including cattle, sheep, goats, and farmed deer. Recently, this bacterium has received an increasingly wide interest because of a rapidly growing body of scientific evidence which suggests that human infection with this microorganism may be causing some, and possibly all, cases of Crohn's...

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