No Mycobacterium paratuberculosis found in Crohn's disease using the polymerase chain reaction

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 421-426

  Dumonceau, Jean Marc ^a   Van Gossum, André ^b   Adler, Michael ^b   Fonteyne, Pierre Alain ^b   Van Vooren, Jean Paul ^b   Devière, Jacques ^b   Portaels, Françoise ^b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Infection; M. paratuberculosis; Mycobacteria; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029871597     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02093838     Document Type: Article

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