LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Presence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) in Brazilian patients with inflammatory bowel diseases and in controls

Carvalho, Isabel Azevedo; Schwarz, David Germano Gonçalves; Pietralonga, Pricila Aparecida Grasse; Faria, Ana Carolina Silva; Braga, Isis Freitas Espechit; Carvalho, Gabriel Domingos; Valente, Fabrício Luciani; Machado, João Paulo; Guimarães, Lize Maciel Pinheiro; Ferrari, Maria de Lourdes Abreu; Silva Júnior, Abelardo; Moreira, Maria Aparecida Scatamburlo.

Säo Paulo med. j; 134 (1), 2016

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) has attracted the interest of researchers because of similarities between paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease (CD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of MAP through cultures, histology and polymerase chain reactio...

Estudios de Casos y Controles, Colitis Ulcerosa/microbiología, Enfermedad de Crohn/microbiología, Estudios Transversales, Enfermedades Inflamatorias del Intestino/microbiología, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis/aislamiento & purificación, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis/patogenicidad, Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/métodos, Análisis de Secuencia de ADN/métodos

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