Johne's Disease Control in Canada - 2010-2013 -Successes and Challenges

摘要

Johne's Disease (JD) has long been identified as an important production-limiting disease of dairy cattle. Concern over public scrutiny of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) as a potential zoonotic agent has brought the disease to the forefront among producers groups across Canada. While programs targeted at JD control have been developed and implemented provin-cially, the coordination of these programs at the national level remains an important issue to ensure some degree of uniformity of practice since cattle frequently move among provinces.