Characterization of BSE and scrapie strains/isolates

Archives of Virology, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 16, 2001, Pages 217-226

  Groschup, M H ^a   Kuczius, T ^a   Junghans, F ^a   Sweeney, T ^b   Bodemer, W ^a   Buschmann, A ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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