Scrapie-free Merino and Poll Dorset sheep from Australia and New Zealand have normal frequencies of scrapie-susceptible PrP genotypes

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2079-2082

  Hunter, Nora ^a   Cairns, Dorothy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE CONTROL; GENOTYPE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031870204     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-8-2079     Document Type: Article

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