Spiroplasma spp. from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy brains or ticks induce spongiform encephalopathy in ruminants

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1235-1242

  Bastian, Frank O ^a   Sanders, Dearl E ^a   Forbes, Will A ^a   Hagius, Sue D ^a   Walker, Joel V ^a   Henk, William G ^b   Enright, Fred M ^a   Elzer, Philip H ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GOAT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA MIRIUM; TICK;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DEER; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS; PRION DISEASES; RUMINANTS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPIROPLASMA; TICKS;

EID: 34748884933     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47159-0     Document Type: Article

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