Different prion disease phenotypes result from inoculation of cattle with two temporally separated sources of sheep scrapie from Great Britain

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Konold, Timm ^a,c   Yoon, Hee Lee ^b   Stack, Michael J ^a   Horrocks, Claire ^a   Green, Robert B ^a   Chaplin, Melanie ^a   Simmons, Marion M ^a   Hawkins, Steve A C ^a   Lockey, Richard ^a   Spiropoulos, John ^a   Wilesmith, John W ^c   Wells, Gerald A H ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

^c Food and Rural Affairs   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; OVIS ARIES; SCRAPIE PRION;

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BOVINAE; BRAIN; CATTLE DISEASES; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; TIME; TRANSMISSION; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GREAT BRITAIN; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; PRPSC PROTEINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751197261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-2-31     Document Type: Article

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