Frontiers in Public Health (Sep 2017)

The Consensus from the Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) Conference 2017

  • J. Todd Kuenstner,
  • Saleh Naser,
  • William Chamberlin,
  • Thomas Borody,
  • David Y. Graham,
  • Adrienne McNees,
  • John Hermon-Taylor,
  • Amy Hermon-Taylor,
  • C. Thomas Dow,
  • Walter Thayer,
  • James Biesecker,
  • Michael T. Collins,
  • Leonardo A. Sechi,
  • Shoor Vir Singh,
  • Peilin Zhang,
  • Ira Shafran,
  • Stuart Weg,
  • Grzegorz Telega,
  • Robert Rothstein,
  • Harry Oken,
  • Stephen Schimpff,
  • Horacio Bach,
  • Tim Bull,
  • Irene Grant,
  • Jay Ellingson,
  • Heinrich Dahmen,
  • Judith Lipton,
  • Saurabh Gupta,
  • Kundan Chaubey,
  • Manju Singh,
  • Prabhat Agarwal,
  • Ashok Kumar,
  • Jyoti Misri,
  • Jagdip Sohal,
  • Kuldeep Dhama,
  • Zahra Hemati,
  • William Davis,
  • Michael Hier,
  • John Aitken,
  • Ellen Pierce,
  • Nicole Parrish,
  • Neil Goldberg,
  • Maher Kali,
  • Sachin Bendre,
  • Gaurav Agrawal,
  • Robert Baldassano,
  • Preston Linn,
  • Raymond W. Sweeney,
  • Marie Fecteau,
  • Casey Hofstaedter,
  • Raghava Potula,
  • Olga Timofeeva,
  • Steven Geier,
  • Kuruvilla John,
  • Najah Zayanni,
  • Hoda M. Malaty,
  • Christopher Kahlenborn,
  • Amanda Kravitz,
  • Adriano Bulfon,
  • George Daskalopoulos,
  • Hazel Mitchell,
  • Brett Neilan,
  • Verlaine Timms,
  • Davide Cossu,
  • Giuseppe Mameli,
  • Paul Angermeier,
  • Tomislav Jelic,
  • Ralph Goethe,
  • Ramon A. Juste,
  • Lauren Kuenstner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00208
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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On March 24 and 25, 2017 researchers and clinicians from around the world met at Temple University in Philadelphia to discuss the current knowledge of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) and its relationship to human disease. The conference was held because of shared concern that MAP is a zoonotic bacterium that poses a threat not only to animal health but also human health. In order to further study this problem, the conferees discussed ways to improve MAP diagnostic tests and discussed potential future anti-MAP clinical trials. The conference proceedings may be viewed on the www.Humanpara.org website. A summary of the salient work in this field is followed by recommendations from a majority of the conferees.

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