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Evaluation of the limitations and methods to improve rapid phage-based detection of viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the blood of experimentally infected cattle (2016)
Journal Article
Swift, B. M., Huxley, J., Plain, K. M., Begg, D. J., de Silva, K., Purdie, A. C., …Rees, C. (2016). Evaluation of the limitations and methods to improve rapid phage-based detection of viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the blood of experimentally infected cattle. BMC Veterinary Research, 12, Article 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-016-0728-2

Background Disseminated infection and bacteraemia is an underreported and under-researched aspect of Johne’s disease. This is mainly due to the time it takes for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) to grow and lack of sensitivity of... Read More about Evaluation of the limitations and methods to improve rapid phage-based detection of viable Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the blood of experimentally infected cattle.

Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA (2016)
Journal Article
Swift, B., Convery, T., & Rees, C. (2016). Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA. Virulence, 7(7), 779-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2016.1191729

Bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis 19 that affects cattle and can cause tuberculosis in a range of wildlife animals. A 20 bacteriophage-based method combined with PCR (phage-PCR) has been recently used... Read More about Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA.