BSE and TSEs: Past, present and future

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages S34-S39

  Budka, Herbert ^a   Goossens, Bart ^b   Ru, Giuseppe ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNDP/GEF/UNOPS Regional Project on Conservation of Endemic Livestock in West Africa   (Gambia)

^c Italian Reference Centre for Animal TSE (CEA)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROL MEASURES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; ZOONOTIC POTENTIAL;

NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 55249115765     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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