BSE: A decade on - Part I

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9052, 1997, Pages 636-641

  Collee, J Gerald ^a   Bradley, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE DISEASE; COORDINATION; MICROSCOPE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE; TEMPERAMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031040150     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)01310-4     Document Type: Review

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