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1Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Box 110880, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. buergeltc@mail.vetmed.ufl.edu
Abstract:
The morphologic changes of subclinical Johne's disease in North American Bison (Bison bison) are characterized by microgranulomas composed of epithelioid macrophages and individual multinucleate giant cells of Langhans'-type occasionally containing individual cytoplasmic acid-fast bacilli compatible with Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis. The microgranulomas are best visualized in the mesenteric lymph nodes of infected subclinical animals. Macrophages that can be confused with infection-associated epithelioid macrophages in the mesenteric lymph nodes are pigment-carrying cells from the intestinal tract. Mesenteric lymph node biopsy may be a useful diagnostic tool for detection of mild subclinical infection in individual ruminants from herds of unknown infection status. The biopsy may also be useful for Johne's disease surveillance during test-and-cull programs.
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