The UK epidemic of BSE: Slow virus or chronic pesticide-initiated modification of the prion protein? Part 2: An epidemiological perspective

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 445-454

  Purdey, M ^a  

^a High Barn Farm   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PHTHALIMIDE;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; EMBRYOPATHY; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029968884     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(96)90023-7     Document Type: Article

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