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noun
A chronic, contagious and often fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by the intestinal bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
For Dr. H. A. Johne, German pathologist
