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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 2001, p. 4514-4517, Vol. 39, No. 12
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sezione
di Microbiologia Sperimentale e Clinica,1
Istituto di Anatomia e Istologia
Patologica,2 and Istituto di Patologia
Speciale Medica,3 Università degli studi
di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, and Istituto di Microbiologia,
Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia "Agostino Gemelli,"
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome,4 Italy
Received 15 June 2001/Returned for modification 26 August
2001/Accepted 24 September 2001
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.
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4514-4517.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Identification of Mycobacterium
avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Biopsy
Specimens from Patients with Crohn's Disease Identified by In
Situ Hybridization
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dipartimento di
Scienze Biomediche, Sezione di Microbiologia Sperimentale e Clinica, Università degli studi di Sassari, Viale S. Pietro 43/B, 07100 Sassari, Italy. Phone: 79 228303. Fax: 79 212345. E-mail:
sechila{at}ssmain.uniss.it.
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