UNASSIGNED: Global research knowledge has accumulated over the past few decades, and there is reasonable evidence for a positive association between @entity3069 spp. @entity3068 and @entity30 in @entity1 , although its role as a @entity1 pathogen has not been entirely accepted. For this reason, management of public health risk due to M.  @entity3068 remains an important policy issue in agri-food public health arenas in many countries. Responsible authorities must decide whether existing mitigation strategies are sufficient to prevent or reduce @entity1 exposure to M.  @entity3068 . A Web-based questionnaire was administered to topic specialists to elicit empirical knowledge and opinion on the overall public health impact of M.  @entity3068 , the importance of various routes of @entity1 exposure to the pathogen, existing mitigation strategies and the need for future strategies. The questionnaire had four sections and consisted of 20 closed and five open questions. Topic specialists believed that M.  @entity3068 is likely a risk to @entity1 health (44.8%) and, given the paucity of available evidence, most frequently ranked it as a moderate public health issue (40.1%). A significant correlation was detected between topic specialists' commitment to M.  @entity3068 in terms of the number of years or proportion of work dedicated to this topic, and the likelihood of an extreme answer (high or low) to the above questions. Topic specialists identified contact with ruminants and dairy products as the most likely routes of exposure for @entity1 . There was consensus on exposure routes for ruminants and what commodities to target in mitigation efforts. Described mandatory programmes mainly focused on culling diseased animals and voluntary on-farm prevention programmes. Despite ongoing difficulties in the identification of @entity4092 in animals, the topic specialists largely agreed that further enhancement of on-farm programmes in affected commodities by the agri-food industry (68.4%) and allocation of resources by governments to monitor the issue (92%) are most appropriate given the current state of evidence.

The potential Public Health Impact of XXXX ssp. @entity3068 : Global Opinion Survey of Topic Specialists.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['humans', 'human'] @entity30 :: ('MESH:D003424', 'Disease') :: ["Crohn's disease"] @entity3069 :: ('1764', 'Species') :: ['Mycobacterium avium'] @entity3068 :: ('MESH:D010283', 'Disease') :: ['paratuberculosis'] @entity4092 :: ('MESH:D058345', 'Disease') :: ['subclinical infections']
@entity3069 :: (1764,Species) :: ['Mycobacterium avium']
