Biological Specimens

The Johne's Service Center provides cultures of M. paratuberculosis from various sources and biological samples from infected animals to other research centers. Examples of the kinds of samples available are:

Isolates of M. paratuberculosis
The culture collection at the Center has over 250 different isolates of M. paratuberculosis from domesticated and wild animals from different herds and geographic locations. Fecal samples from infected animals, known to contain M. paratuberculosis
Serum samples from naturally and experimentally infected individual animals
Large volumes of pooled sera with high levels of antibodies to M. paratuberculosis for use as controls in standardization of diagnostic assays

For availability and price information contact Dr. Mike Collins:

Office telephone: 608-262-8457

FAX: 608-265-6463

Email: collinsm@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu

Last revised February 19, 1997.
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