Assessment of Ovine Johne’s disease in the Mandya sheep breed in South India using multiple diagnostic tests and bio-typing of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection

Johne’s disease is major infectious disease of domestic livestock in India. Despite low per animal productivity, the country is yet to initiate plan for the survey and control of disease at National scale. A total of 81 clinical samples from Mandya breed of sheep were collected from an organised far...

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Main Authors: Shivalingappa Yamanappa Mukartal, Doddamane Rathnamma, Hogalagere Doddappaiah Narayanaswamy, Saurabh Gupta, Kundan Kumar Chaubey, Manju Singh, Zahra Hemati, Chikkahonnaiah Nishanth, Anjali Pachoori, Kuldeep Dhama, ShoorVir Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Food & Agriculture
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2017.1298391