Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease - Authors' reply

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 345-346

  Feller, Martin ^a   Huwiler, Karin ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 43849103162     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70106-3     Document Type: Letter

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