Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Current Status and Possible Impacts

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3042-3048

  Hillerton, J Eric ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; nvCJD; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS;

EID: 0032196897     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(98)75869-2     Document Type: Article

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