Article
Isolation of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis from colostrum and milk of subclinically infected cows
1995-10-01
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SUMMARY Mycobacterial culture was performed on colostrum, milk, and feces from 126 clinically normal cows of a single herd with high prevalence of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection. Thirty-six (28.6%) cows were determined to be shedding the organism in the feces. Of the 36 fecal culture-positive cows, M paratuberculosis was isolated from the colostrum of 8 (22.2%) and from the milk of 3 (8.3%). Cows that we...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 7b0e8f24-9266-55bf-b868-bc45c2d4179d
- DOI
- 10.2460/ajvr.1995.56.10.1322
