Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: Evidence for limited strain diversity, strain sharing, and identification of unique targets for diagnosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2015-2026

  Motiwala, Alifiya S ^a,c   Strother, Megan ^a   Amonsin, Alongkorn ^f   Byrum, Beverly ^b   Naser, Saleh A ^e   Stabel, Judith R ^d   Shulaw, William P ^c   Bannantine, John P ^d   Kapur, Vivek ^f   Sreevatsan, Srinand ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAPERONINS; CROHN DISEASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0038290218     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2015-2026.2003     Document Type: Article

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