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Crohn’s disease has historically been confused with tuberculosis. In 1913, Dalziel clearly described a non-tuberculous enteritis which was undoubtedly Crohn’s disease, and suggested the possibility that the disease could be similar to Johne’s disease in ruminants (1). In 1932 the two diseases were convincingly distinguished by the landmark paper of Crohn, Ginzburg, and Oppenheimer after they ruled out tuberculosis by culture and animal inoculation into guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens (2).
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Thayer, W.R., Chiodini, R., Van Kruiningen, H.J., Coutu, J. (1986). Study of a New Mycobacterium Isolated from Patients with Crohn’s Disease. In: Rachmilewitz, D. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 1986. Developments in Gastroenterology, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4269-1_3
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