Transmission of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis: Dose-response and age-based susceptibility in a sheep model

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 76-84

  McGregor, Helen ^a,b   Dhand, Navneet K ^a   Dhungyel, Om P ^a   Whittington, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Dose response; Paratuberculosis; Susceptibility; Transmission

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROPATHY; FECES; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; PARATUBERCULOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FECES; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PARATUBERCULOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84867141504     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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