| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| GIT | Gastrointestinal tract |
| IFN-ɣ | Interferon gamma |
| JD | Johne’s Disease |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| MAP | Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis |
| miRNA | microRNA |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance |
| qPCR | real-time PCR |