Identification of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Biopsy Specimens from Patients with Crohn's Disease Identified by In Situ Hybridization |
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| Authors: | Leonardo A. Sechi Mura Manuela Tanda Francesco Lissia Amelia Solinas Antonello Fadda Giovanni Zanetti Stefania |
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| Affiliation: | Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Microbiologia Sperimentale e Clinica, Università degli studi di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy. sechila@ssmain.uniss.it |
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Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract of unknown etiology. We report on the presence of cell wall-deficient Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in 35 of 48 paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 33 patients with Crohn's disease by in situ hybridization with IS900 as a probe. |
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