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Bovine paratuberculosis or MAP and Crohn's disease

Ganado bovino portador MAP Via mailing list Group AEII_org , we can see that between 3 and 8 December was presented to researchers, food safety officials and general public survey or British about the variety and prevalence of disease, in cattle the UK has been waiting both the Crohn's community and that can draw some conclusions and printing (or finding) that each passing day Johnes and two surnames are increasingly united but not yet published a study to be conclusive for all.

Since long ago, part of the scientific community required some type of study . In fact, one of the first lines of investigation was the treatment of mycobacterial infection, being to date and several medical teams who believe that the cause of Crohn's disease is a bacterium called Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis ( ) . This bacterium occurs in the cattle Johne's disease, similar to the EC . As a bacterium capable of infecting different species, it is believed that one of them would be the human.

The question of course by any sick knowing all these data is obvious: If you already well know in the world that a cow infected with MAP is a sick cow why nothing is done about it and sacrifice if There is scientific evidence that this disease can affect cattle to the human race?. The answers we can come realizandonos another question; A who negatively affects the relationship Johne - MAP - Crohn if demonstrated such a relationship?. The answer is also obvious first concern to the grand lobby composed of multinationals producing milk, second large corporations livestock and third (why not?) Pharmaceuticals. If it is proved at last that MAP is the cause of CD is more than evident that this news would mean economic losses for all these lobbies (and others probably will slip seen from our humble perspective).

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Perspectives in Crohn's Disease

Farmacologia enfermedad crohn Are currently conducting extensive research in the field of pharmacogenomics , in order to examine whether the genetic endowment of an individual to determine their susceptibility to disease or response to treatment. Of particular interest is the use of so-called biochips , that will in the future probably predict what developments will take each individual.

Today, the have no applicability genetic the day. There are many new treatments being studied for the disease of . It is necessary to highlight a couple of lines of research:

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