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Medical Dictionary
Johne's bacillus
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noun
Joh·ne's bacillus
\ˈyō-ˌnēz-, -nəz-\
Medical Definition of Johne's bacillus
: a bacillus of the genus Mycobacterium (M. paratuberculosis) that causes Johne's disease
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Biographical Note for johne's bacillus
Johne
\ˈyō-nə\play , Heinrich Albert
(1839–1910), German bacteriologist. Johne developed a method for staining bacterial capsules in 1894. He discovered Johne's bacillus in 1895.
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