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Short communication: Detection of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis by polymerase chain reaction in bovine milk in Brazil
19 Oct 2009
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Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of paratuberculosis, or Johne's disease, a chronic granulomatous enteritis that affects all ruminants worldwide. Since the isolation of MAP from intestinal tissue of human patients bearing Crohn's disease, there has been a debate on the possibility of this agent playing a role in the etiology of Crohn's disease. Milk could be the potential...
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