Prevalence of vacuolar lesions consistent with scrapie in the brains of healthy cull sheep of the Shetland Islands

Veterinary Record

Volumn 147, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 439-441

  Begara McGorum, I ^a   Clark, A M ^a   Martin, S ^b   Jeffrey, M ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIONS; SCOTLAND; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 0034649028     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.147.16.439     Document Type: Article

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