Molecular identification of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis in an Italian patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-139

  D'Amore, Massimo ^a   Lisi, Sabrina ^a   Sisto, Margherita ^a   Cucci, Liana ^a   Dow, C Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MELKERSSON ROSENTHAL SYNDROME; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DIET; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; ITALY; MELKERSSON-ROSENTHAL SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; MILK; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 73649105452     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.013474-0     Document Type: Letter

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