Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and Crohn's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Lancet Infect Dis on September 01, 2007

Authors

Martin Feller1, Karin Huwiler, Roger Stephan, Ekkehardt Altpeter, Aijing Shang, Hansjakob Furrer, Gaby E Pfyffer, Thomas Jemmi, Andreas Baumgartner, Matthias Egger

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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