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Variations in T cell transcription factor gene structure and expression associated with the two disease forms of sheep paratuberculosis.
Veterinary research - 17 Aug 2016
Nicol Louise, Wilkie Hazel, Gossner Anton, Watkins Craig, Dalziel Robert, Hopkins John
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Two different forms of clinical paratuberculosis in sheep are recognised, related to the level of bacterial colonization. Paucibacillary lesions are largely composed of lymphocytes with few bacteria, and multibacillary pathology is characterized by heavily-infected macrophages. Analysis of cytokine transcripts has shown that inflammatory Th1/Th17 T cells are associated with development of paucibacillary pathology...
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