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First identification of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis sheep strain in Argentina

Travería, G.E.Zumarraga, M.Etchechoury, I.Romano, M.I.Cataldi, A.Alvarado Pinedo, M.F.Pavlik, I.Pribylova, R.Romero, J.R.

We here identified for the first time the presence of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP) sheep (S) strain in Argentina. IS900 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was positive. The S strain was compared with MAP cattle (C) strains by using IS1311 PCR-restriction endonuclease analysis (PCR-REA), multiplex PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis.

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