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Bovine Paratuberculosis (Johne's Disease)
Information Sources
Version 2.2 Updated
May 09, 2008
Links checked 2/05
Purpose:
The purpose of this web page is to provide links to on-line bovine
paratuberculosis materials for consideration by livestock producers and their
veterinarians. Please let me know if you find useful materials that I have
overlooked or if I have made any errors. This webpage is not intended to provide herd-specific advice
and may not reflect the current state of the veterinary literature or on-line
materials. I have not verified the accuracy and usefulness of these on-line
materials so you must use your own judgment or, if you are not qualified to
evaluate these materials, please discuss them with someone who is qualified to
do so and who is familiar with your operation and the infection situation in
your herd.
Contents:
On-Line Paratuberculosis Documents: (alphabetized
by source)
American Association of Bovine
Practitioners
Johne's
Disease - Information for Veterinarians
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners' Food Safety Committee
collaborated with the National Johnes Working Group, a subcommittee of the
Johne's Committee of the USAHA, linked below, to produce a series of
information guides on Johne's Disease for the bovine practitioner and their
clients.
Cornell
Consultant (Dr. M. E. White, Cornell - references and links to other
on-line materials))
For all of the major species and their diseases, Dr. White's site links
clinical signs to the diseases with those clinical signs, a brief
description of the disease and a list of the most recent clinical literature
on the disease as well as links to on-line materials.
Johne's
Disease, Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis in Cattle
Johne's and Beyond
(USAHA National Johne's Working Group)
Johne's Disease -
Animal
Health Australia
NJDCP - National Johne’s Disease
Control Program
Johne's Information
Center (Dr. MT Collins, UW-Madison)
The Johne's information center is a website established by Dr. Mike
Collins, an active paratuberculosis researcher for several decades.
Moredun Research Institute
The role of
wildlife in the epidemiology of paratuberculosis
National Academy of Sciences
Diagnosis and Control of
Johnes Disease (2003)
PubMed - National Library of
Medicine
As the National Library of Medicine indexes almost all of the scientific
human medical literature and a large portion of the scientific veterinary
literature and abstracts are provided for most papers that it indexes, it is
an excellent resource for identifying recent publications on medical and
veterinary topics and for obtaining some information from the abstracts. It
also has a "Related Articles" function that you can use to
identify similar papers to those that you find useful. The following are
some direct searches.
OIE - Office International Des
Epizooties (WHO)
The Merck Veterinary Manual
United Kingdom Food
Standards Agency
United States Animal Health Association
USAHA is a national, public non-profit organization comprised of
scientists, veterinarians, industry representatives, producer organization
representatives and government officials that meets annually to recommend
public policy and research agendas with regard to animal health issues. Within
the organization are committees that each focus on a major disease or issue.
Johnes Committee
USDA-APHIS-CVB
(Center for Veterinary Biologics)
- Memorandum 800.73 - General Requirements for Immunodiagnostic Test
Kits for the Detection of Antibody or Antigen, 2002 (pdf)
USDA-APHIS-NAHMS
- National
Animal Health Monitoring System (USDA NAHMS) -
Dairy
USDA-APHIS-VS Johne's Disease website
- Uniform
Program Standards for the Voluntary Bovine Johne's Disease Control Program
(APHIS 91-45-016, 2006 -
pdf)
- Johne's
Disease in Domestic Animals; Interstate Movement - Federal Register
65(69):18875-18879, 4/10/2000 (html
pdf)
-
USDA-Approved Laboratories
- Johne's Disease--serology (pdf)
- Johne's Disease--organism-based methods (pdf)
- Johne's Disease--pooling methods (pdf)
USDA-FSIS
-
2004-2006 Subcommittee: Assessment of the Food Safety Importance of
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP)
Other On-line Publications:
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Calf Milk
Pasteurization
On-line documents:
- A review of issues surrounding the feeding of waste milk and
pasteurization of waste milk and colostrum (S Godden, 2003,
pdf)
- Answers to pasteurization questions (Dairy Herd Mgmt, Nov 1999,
pdf)
- Calf milk pasteurization (Bovine Vet, Nov-Dec 2001
pdf)
- Feeding Waste Milk to Dairy Calves (New Mexico Extension Guide D-208,
2001, pdf
html
pdf2)
- Have you stopped feeding waste milk? (Moo
Milk Dairy Biz, 1999,
html)
- On-Farm Pasteurization of Milk for Calves (U Wisc Dairy Update,
pdf)
- Waste milk, milk replacer or pasteurized waste milk (The Manager,
6/04,
pdf)
Manufacturers:
Other Sites:
Pasteurization
- FSIRO: Food Safety
Research Information Office - USDA
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State Control Programs / Information Centers:
State site
link collection (Johne's Information Center, Dr. Mike Collins, U
Wisconsin)
New York State Cattle Health Assurance Program
(massive site)
The following are bovine paratuberculosis information sheets for
producers and their veterinarians that were developed by collaboration
between USAHA (linked below), the American
Association of Bovine Practitioners and NYSCHAP and subsequently
modified by Dr. Rossiter. These are very similar to the AABP guides linked
above.
Information Sheets: (modified -
courtesy of Dr. Christine Rossiter)
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Other Relevant Sites:
International
Association for Paratuberculosis - association of bovine paratuberculosis researchers
Veterinary Network on
Mycobacteria
Crohn's Disease and its association with Bovine Paratuberculosis (Johne's
Disease):
That a portion of Crohn's disease cases are associated with Mycobacterium
paratuberculosis is well established in the scientific literature, which is
one reason for the human public health community's heightened concern about
bovine paratuberculosis. What isn't definitively established but is an area
of active research is whether or not the organism causes these Crohn's
disease cases. Some of the following papers and sites deal with this issue.
- Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and
Crohn's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Lancet
7(9):607-613, 2007
pdf)
- CFSPH - Center for Food
Security & Public Health - Iowa State U
- Paratuberculosis (Johne's) Disease and Crohn's Disease, 2005 (pdf)
- A
Meta - Analytic Study on the Detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
from Patients with Crohn's Disease (1999, B Jayarao, Penn State)
- A
Review of the Evidence for a Link between Exposure to Mycobacterium
Paratuberculosis (MAP) and Crohn's Disease (CD) in Humans (70 page report of Food Standards Agency by E Rubery, Univ Cambridge,
2001 -
pdf)
- Crohn’s Disease
– Is There a Microbial Etiology? 1998 Recommendations for a Research
Agenda (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
pdf)
- Crohns Canada - The Canadian
Movement Against Paratuberculosis
- Mycobacterium
paratuberculosis:
Does it contribute to Crohn's disease? (Food Safety Authority of
Ireland, 2000, pdf)
- Paratuberculosis And
Crohn's Disease: Got Milk? (M Greger) Vegan Outreach
version
- PARA - Paratuberculosis Awareness &
Research Association: The Crohn's Disease Activity Center (static, 2004)
- Possible
links between Crohn's disease and Paratuberculosis (European Commission
Health and Consumers
- Scientific Health Opinions, 2000
pdf)
Evaluation of Evidence
Links to relevant materials on assessing evidence:
WWWeb
Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians
Practical
Causal Inference for Ecoepidemiologists (G Fox, 1991)
Relevant materials of mine:
On-line Bayes Calculators
Agri-Food Risk Management & Communication
Dr. Powell's interest is the consumer's perception of
risk, what they expect an industry to be doing about a risk associated with
a product, their reaction to adverse publicity about a product and how an
industry can prepare itself for and respond to such events.
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