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Effect of commercial-scale high-temperature, short-time pasteurization on the viability of
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis in naturally infected cows' milk.
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Mycobacterium paratuberculosis detection in cow's milk in Argentina by immunomagnetic separation-PCR," Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, vol.
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Incidence of
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis infection in goats and sheep based on the fecal culture.
Seroprevalences and 95% confidence intervals follow: bovine-virus-diarrhea virus type 1, 24% (16-32%); bovine-virus-diarrhea type 2, 6% (0-12%), infectious-bovine rhinotracheitis virus, 4% (0-8%); parainfluenza-3 virus, 70% (61-79%); bovine-respiratory syncytial virus, 0%; Brucella abortus, 2% (0-5%); Leptospira spp., 17% (10-23%); Anaplasma marginale, 29% (18-39%);
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, 0%; and epizootic hemorrhagic virus, 0% (Table 2).
Part III: Non-bacterial and emerging foodborne pathogens: Viruses; Parasites: Cryptosporidium, Giardia and Cyclospora as foodborne pathogens; Toxigenic fungi;
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis; Chronic sequeiae of foodborne infections.
They risk getting the
Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis bug from grass infected by rabbit droppings.
At the request of the Advisory Committee for the Microbiological Safety of Food, the samples of milk will be assessed for the presence of
mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
The bug,
mycobacterium paratuberculosis, is one of several possible causes of the condition.