Thermostability of mouse-passaged BSE and scrapie is independent of host PrP genotype: Implications for the nature of the causal agents

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3199-3204

  Taylor, David M ^a   Fernie, Karen ^a   Steele, Philip J ^a   McConnell, Irene ^a   Somerville, Robert A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GENOTYPE; HOST; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; THERMOSTABILITY; TITRIMETRY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0036936859     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-12-3199     Document Type: Article

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