Polygenic variation and transmission factors involved in the resistance/susceptibility to scrapie in a Romanov flock

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 849-857

  Díaz, Clara ^a   Vitezica, Zulma G ^b   Rupp, Rachel ^b   Andréoletti, Olivier ^c   Elsen, Jean Michel ^b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c IHAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERD; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LAMB; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 14744300384     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80412-0     Document Type: Article

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