Prevalence of scrapie infection in cull animals from 14 scrapie-affected flocks in Great Britain

Veterinary Record

Volumn 157, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 480-482

  Tongue, S C ^a   Webb, P ^a   Simmons, M M ^a   Gubbins, S ^a,b  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HERD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE SECTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

EID: 27744458836     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.157.16.480     Document Type: Article

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