Search for healthy carriers of scrapie: An assessment of subclinical infection of sheep in an Icelandic scrapie flock by three diagnostic methods and correlation with PrP genotypes

Archives of Virology

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 709-722

  Thorgeirsdottir, S ^a   Georgsson, G ^a   Reynisson, E ^a   Sigurdarson, S ^a   Palsdottir, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMO; OVIS ARIES;

PRION PROTEIN;

AGE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; ICELAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CARRIER STATE; GENOTYPE; ICELAND; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 0035983122     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007050200020     Document Type: Article

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