Metabolomic profiling in cattle experimentally infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.

The sensitivity of current diagnostics for Johne's disease, a slow, progressing enteritis in ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), is too low to reliably detect all infected animals in the subclinical stage. The objective was to identify individual metabolites o...

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Main Authors: Jeroen De Buck, Rustem Shaykhutdinov, Herman W Barkema, Hans J Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4221196?pdf=render