Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An affection due seemingly to the toxins of tuberculosis but in which the living bacillus cannot be found.
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- noun A
disease orruminants caused by asubspecies of Mycobacterium avium;Johne's disease - noun pathology A disease similar to
tuberculosis in which the livingbacillus is not present
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Examples
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He paused, considering, then said, 'This infection you have, this unusual variant of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis ¦ it's from a strain that was developed originally for measuring how much or how little heat was needed to achieve viable infection after pasteurisation.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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'The rest of the news, my dear Dr Stuart, is that you have a variation of an already rare complication of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.'
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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They were, after all, the world's only source of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Chand-Stuart X. Robin and I went into the hut away from the gathering gale, and looked at the safe.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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That evening, Michael, about to become the second-ever case of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Chand-Stuart X, lost his cool, shot an intruder and was having to answer the difficult question: why did the bullet in the intruder match the one removed from a man discovered face down in the Everglades with his legs half eaten by alligators?
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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My dear grandmother might warn her that I'd loved and left three times in the past, but Jett was different ¦ and how did one define 'different'? except that anyone who could love Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Chand-Stuart X was as different as Pu-239.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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'Very little is known about the human incidence of paratuberculosis,' the Indian said cheerfully.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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I stopped walking, stopped listening, turned fast on my heel and started back towards the station at a paratuberculosis effort of a shambling run.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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I said, resigned, 'I drank the milk of those cows, and it gave me a unique illness now called Mycobacterium paratuberculosis Chand-Stuart X.'
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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Christopher Davies discusses the "Role of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease" during the 10th ICP in Minneapolis, 2009.
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Marta Alonso-Hearn discusses the "Isolation of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis from muscle tissue of naturally infected cattle" during the 10th ICP in Minneapolis, 2009.
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