by Dr. Marcel Behr

Dr. Marcel Behr is a Full Professor of Medicine and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences as well as the Director of the McGill International TB Centre and Microbiologist-in-Chief at the hospital. Here, Dr. Behr talks about the nature of MAP as compared to tuberculosis, and explains the challenges of finding MAP in human samples and why some testing for MAP gives false positives. He explains the gold standard of culture for human MAP and why MAP may not be present the feces. Questions from the audience follow the presentation.