Specific immunoassays confirm association of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis with type-1 but not type-2 diabetes mellitus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Rosu, Valentina ^a   Ahmed, Niyaz ^b   Paccagnini, Daniela ^a   Gerlach, Gerald ^c   Fadda, Giovanni ^d   Hasnain, Seyed E ^b,e   Zanetti, Stefania ^a   Sechi, Leonardo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOASSAY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WHOLE CELL;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM SUBSP. PARATUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84887212591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004386     Document Type: Article

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