ヨーネ病（paratuberculosis）

意味

Paratuberculosis, also known as Johne’s disease, is a chronic, contagious bacterial disease of the intestinal tract that primarily affects sheep and cattle (most commonly dairy cattle), and goats as well as other ruminant species. The disease has also been reported in horses, pigs, deer, alpaca, llama, rabbits, stoat, fox, and weasel. Paratuberculosis is characterized by a slowly progressive wasting of the animal and increasingly severe diarrhoea. There is no treatment or cure for this disease.