Ovine Scrapie: Priorities and Importance

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 475-483

  Novak M ^a,b   Vrtiak, O J ^a,b   Mikula, I ^b,c   Tkacikova L' ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Ctrl Lab of Veterinary Biomedicine   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; CAPRA; CAPRA HIRCUS; CERVIDAE; FELIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PRION; PRION DISEASE; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS); ZOONOSES;

EID: 0034575464     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02818713     Document Type: Article

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