Pruritus is a common feature in sheep infected with the BSE agent

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Konold, Timm ^a,b   Bone, Gemma ^a   Vidal Diez, Alberto ^a   Tortosa, Raul ^c   Davis, Andrew ^d   Dexter, Glenda ^a   Hill, Peter ^e   Jeffrey, Martin ^a   Simmons, Marion M ^a   Chaplin, Melanie J ^a   Bellworthy, Susan J ^a   Berthelin Baker, Christine ^f  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^f All Animals Neurology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRURITUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; MALE; PRURITUS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 50349083399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-4-16     Document Type: Article

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