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Record 1 2010-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
CONT

Johne's disease is a specific, infectious enteritis of cattle, sheep and goats, It is characterized by progressive emaciation in all species affected, and in cattle by chronic diarrhea and a thickening and corrugation of the wall of the intestine. Three strains of M. paratuberculosis are capable of causing the disease in cattle, the usual bovine strain and two sheep strains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
DEF

Maladie contagieuse, inoculable, des espèces bovines et ovines, due à Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, qui se caractérise par une entérite chronique hypertrophiante amenant la mort après un amaigrissement progressif.

OBS

Le diagnostic se fonde sur la réaction locale à la paratuberculine ou johnine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
OBS

paratuberculosis: término proveniente del Código Zoosanitario Internacional, 2002.

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