Experimental inoculation of scrapie and chronic wasting disease agents in raccoons (Procyon lotor)

Veterinary Record

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 121-123

  Hamir, A N ^a   Miller, J M ^a   Cutlip, R C ^a   Stack, M J ^b   Chaplin, M J ^b   Jenny, A L ^c   Williams, E S ^d  

^a NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUTHANASIA; FIBER; HAIR LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; LETHARGY; LIPID STORAGE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RACCOON; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; SPINAL CORD LESION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TISSUE SECTION; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 0042700301     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.153.4.121     Document Type: Article

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