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Presence, characterization, and genotype profiles of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from unpasteurized individual and pooled milk, commercial pasteurized milk, and milk products in India by culture, PCR, and PCR-REA methods.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Feb 2010
Shankar H, Singh S V, Singh P K, Singh A V, Sohal J S, Greenstein R J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) causes Johne's disease in ruminants, a chronic enteritis evocative of human inflammatory bowel disease. In industrialized countries MAP has been cultured from pasteurized milk, compounding the increasing concern that MAP may be zoonotic. The purpose of this study was to evaluate commercially available unpasteurized and pasteurized milk and its...
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