Detection methods of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is receiving increasingly wider interest of scientific groups worldwide. This slow-growing mycobacterium does not only evoke paratuberculosis--an infectious cattle disease that brings huge economic losses--but it is also regarded as a potential cause of human Crohn;s disease. It is very difficult to diagnose precisely this kind of animal infection in its very early stages, as well as to detect occurrence of M. paratuberculosis cells in the environment, including food of animal origin. This paper reviews currently known and employed diagnostic techniques for M. paratuberculosis cell detection and identification.
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Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 14, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland. aga@moskit.uwm.edu.pl
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D000818:Animals; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine / Q000379:methods*; D016927:Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010283:Paratuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity