Talk:Johnei

I could find no reference explicitly announcing or even proposing the change-of-name from "Mycobacterium johnei" to "Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis". PubMed and MeSH terms were not definitive, either. However all the PubMed hits on "johnei" dated to the 1970's, except one in Dutch, translated to be about paratuberculosis. Several days of reading relevant literature convinced me that this is the correct redirect.

There are journal articles proving that M. paratuberculosis is a subspecies of M. avium, so if M. johnei is the cause of Johne's disease, it is not a separate species and needs to be renamed.

C4dn (talk) 05:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)