Clinical characterisation of natural scrapie in a native Spanish breed of sheep

Veterinary Record

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 318-320

  Vargas, F ^a   Bolea, R ^b   Monleon E ^a   Acin C ^a   Vargas, A ^a   De Blas, I ^a   Lujan L ^a   Badiola, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b Reg Lab Transmissible Spongiform   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY CONSTITUTION; BREED DIFFERENCE; BREEDING LINE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIAL NERVE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEART RHYTHM; HERD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPESTHESIA; HYPOREFLEXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NATIVE SPECIES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; PRURITUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; SHEEP DISEASE; SPAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREMOR; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; MARTES PENNANTI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 15844386741     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.156.10.318     Document Type: Article

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