Detection of latent forms of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection using host biomarker-based ELISAs greatly improves paratuberculosis diagnostic sensitivity

• Cristina Blanco Vázquez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Deva Gijón, Asturias, Spain

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• Marta Alonso-Hearn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Health Department, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain

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• Ramón A. Juste,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Animal Health Department, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain, Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

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• María Canive,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Health Department, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain

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• Tania Iglesias,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unidad de Consultoría Estadística, Servicios científico-técnicos, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Gijón, Asturias, Spain

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• Natalia Iglesias,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Deva Gijón, Asturias, Spain

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• Javier Amado,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departament of Microbiology and Parasitology, Laboratorio de Sanidad Animal del Principado de Asturias (LSAPA), Gijón, Asturias, Spain

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• Fernando Vicente,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

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• Ana Balseiro,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Deva Gijón, Asturias, Spain, Department of Animal Health, Facultad de Veterinaria, Instituto Ganadería de Montaña (CSIC-ULE), University of León, León, Spain

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• Rosa Casais

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rosacg@serida.org

  Affiliation Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Deva Gijón, Asturias, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-5878

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