Knowledge Gaps

There are still many questions left unanswered with regards to paratuberculosis and its control or eradication (Barkema et al., 2018). With such an endemic disease and decades of attempted control programmes, is eradication a reasonable goal? There remains a need for more accurate diagnostic tests, especially to detect early stages of infection.

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