Detection of cattle-derived BSE prions using transgenic mice overexpressing bovine PrPC

Archives of Virology, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 16, 2001, Pages 75-86

  Buschmann, A ^a   Pfaff, E ^a   Reifenberg, K ^b   Muller H M ^a,c   Groschup, M H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c Connex GmbH ^*  (Germany)

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