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Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in a longitudinal study of three dairy herds.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2011
Pradhan Abani K, Mitchell Rebecca M, Kramer Aagje J, Zurakowski Michael J, Fyock Terry L, Whitlock Robert H, Smith Julia M, Hovingh Ernest, Van Kessel Jo Ann S, Karns Jeffrey S, Schukken Ynte H
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to evaluate whether cows that were low shedders of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis were passively shedding or truly infected with M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis. We also investigated whether it is possible that these M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis-infected animals could have been infected as adults by contemporary high-shedding animals (supershedders). The M. avium...
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