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Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis diagnosis and geno-typing: genomic insights.
Microbiological research - 1 Jan 2009
Sohal J S, Singh S V, Subodh Swati, Sheoran Neelam, Narayanasamy K, Singh P K, Singh A V, Maitra A
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Effective control of paratuberculosis and investigations of potential link to Crohn's disease have been hampered by the lack of effective assays for easy and accurate diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map). Map is extremely fastidious and depends on iron chelator (Mycobactin). Map strains from humans and sheep are very difficult to isolate and may require years to emerge. Therefore,...
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