Crohn's disease may be caused by bacterium found in cattle, sheep and goats

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Crohn's disease may be caused by bacterium found in cattle, sheep and goats

JoAnn Guest May 23, 2005 18:24 PDT

 

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The question is: how does this bacterium get into humans and cause them

to suffer from Crohn's disease? Could dairy or meat products be part of

the picture here? Be sure to read the related article, Milk and dairy

products cause Crohn's disease, mucous and irritable bowel syndrome --

interview with Robert Cohen.

 

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Original news summary: (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6020970/)

 

 

A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could

also be responsible for Crohn's disease, researchers said on Friday.

Dr. Saleh Naser and researchers at the University of Central Florida in

Orlando believe it is due to a bacterium called MAP which is found in

cattle, sheep and goats suffering from an illness called

Paratuberculosis or Johne's disease.

" We discovered the bacteria in the blood of Crohn's patients.

This is the first time anyone has done that, " Naser said in an

interview.

Previous studies have concentrated on looking for MAP in the tissue of

Crohn's patients and the outcome has been mixed, according to Naser.

'Disease might be systemic' MAP was found in the blood of patients with

Crohn's disease but not in healthy people.

" The blood is a sterile environment so the presence of this bacteria in

the blood indicates this disease might be systemic, which means it may

start in the intestine and ultimately it may infiltrate into other

organs, " he said.

Abdominal pain, diarrhea, rectal bleeding, weight loss and fever are the

most common symptoms of the illness.

Naser, who reported the finding in The Lancet medical journal, believes

people can be exposed to the bacteria but they do not develop the

illness unless they have a genetic susceptibility to it.

In a commentary in the journal, Professor Warwick Selby of the Royal

Prince Alfred Hospital in Newtown, Australia, said although the research

may fall short of proving that MAP is one of the causes of the illness,

it raises many important questions.

" The findings now need to be replicated in other laboratories.

Whatever one's view, MAP cannot continue to be ignored in Crohn's

disease, " he said.

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