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SUBMITTER: Tilocca B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558617 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tilocca Bruno B Soggiu Alessio A Greco Viviana V Piras Cristian C Arrigoni Norma N Ricchi Matteo M Britti Domenico D Urbani Andrea A Roncada Paola P
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200827 9
Paratuberculosis is an infectious disease of ruminants caused by <i>Mycobacterium avium</i> subsp. <i>paratuberculosis</i> (MAP). MAP is an intracellular pathogen with a possible zoonotic potential since it has been successfully isolated from the intestine and blood of Crohn's disease patients.Since no cure is available, after the detection of the disease, animal culling is the sole applicable containment strategy. However, the difficult detection of the disease in its subclinical form, facilita ...[more]