Emerging pathogens: Is Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis zoonotic?

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9432, 2004, Pages 396-397

  Greenstein, Robert J ^a   Collins, Michael T ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHEXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARATUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM;

EID: 3843065827     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16781-0     Document Type: Note

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