Follicular dendritic cells in scrapie pathogenesis

Archives of Virology, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 16, 2001, Pages 13-21

  Brown, K L ^a   Stewart, K ^a   Ritchie, D ^a   Fraser, H ^a   Morrison, W I ^a   Bruce, M E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

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