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SUBMITTER: Smith RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4679433 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Rebecca L RL Schukken Ynte H YH Gröhn Yrjö T YT
Preventive veterinary medicine 20151021 3
Models of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), a chronic infectious agent of cattle, are used to identify effective control programs. However, new biological findings show that adult infections occur and that infected animals can be separated into 2 paths: animals that will become high-shedding and, eventually, experience clinical disease (high-path); and animals that will shed only small quantities of MAP and will remain subclinical (low-path). Longitudinal data analysis found tha ...[more]