Longitudinal Pathogenesis Study of Young Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) after Experimental Challenge with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP)

Table 2

Summary of BACTEC culture results in terms of the number of days to positive (dtp) for jejunal lymph node (JJLN) samples taken at Weeks 4 and 12, and for a pool of three samples of JJLN plus ileocaecal lymph node (ICLN) and a pool of three jejunum and ileo-caecal valve samples (JJ + ICV) and faecal samples (FSs) at week 50, compared with MLN lesion severity scores (LSSs) at each time point, with the animals sorted by total LSS at week 50 and designated as least or most affected.

Tag	Sire	Week 4		Week 12			Week 50
		MLN LSS	JJLN	MLN LSS	JJLN	MLN LSS	JJLN + ICLN	JJ + ICV	FS	Affected
506	1	2	36	5	21	2	34	34	Neg	Least
511	1	0	36	4	21	2	34	34	Neg	Least
509	2	0	36	5	15	4	26	26	Neg	Least
Mean			36	5	19	3	31	31
514	2	0	28	7	15	4	34	26	Neg
504	2	0	32	7	15	3	26	21	Neg
513	1	0	32	7	15	4	18	18	31
502	2	0	36	7	12	5	18	26	Neg
501	2	0	42	7	12	5	18	34	37
500	2	0	35	5	12	4	21	18	Neg
510	2	2	36	7	12	5	18	26	Neg
512	2	0	36	5	12	5	18	34	31
Mean			35	6	13	5	21	25	33
517	2	0	36	5	12	6	18	26	Neg	Most
508	1	0	32	7	15	6	18	26	Neg	Most
507	1	0	36	7	12	7	18	18	37	Most
Mean			35	7	13	6	18	23	37