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Incidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in a population-based cohort of patients with Crohn's disease and control subjects.
The American journal of gastroenterology - 1 May 2008
Bentley Robert W, Keenan Jacqui I, Gearry Richard B, Kennedy Martin A, Barclay Murray L, Roberts Rebecca L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To define the incidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and in control subjects. METHODS: Blood samples from 361 CD patients from a previously described population-based inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) cohort and 200 blood donor controls, of known NOD2 genotype, were screened by PCR for MAP-specific IS900 DNA. These results were correlated...
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