Concurrent resolution of chronic diarrhea likely due to Crohn's disease and infection with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
Examination of samples of stool from a 61 year old male patient, presenting with the clinical symptoms of Crohn’s disease (CD), revealed massive shedding of acid fast bacilli with the morphology of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP), the causative agent of Johne’s disease in cattle. MAP was...
Main Authors: | Shoor Vir Singh, J. Todd Kuenstner, William C. Davis, Prabhat Agarwal, Naveen Kumar, Devendra Singh, Saurabh Gupta, Kundan Kumar Chaubey, Ashok Kumar Tyagi, Jyoti Misri, Sujatha Jayaraman, Jagdip Singh Sohal, Kuldeep Dhama |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmed.2016.00049/full |
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