Transmission of atypical bovine prions to mice transgenic for human prion protein

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1898-1901

  Béringue, Vincent ^a,c   Herzog, Laëtitia ^a   Reine, Fabienne ^a   Le Dur, Annick ^a   Casalone, Cristina ^b   Vilotte, Jean Luc ^a   Laude, Hubert ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LIGURIA E VALLE D AOSTA   (Italy)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HIGHER TYPE BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; INOCULATION; LOWER TYPE BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY AGENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 56949108846     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1412.080941     Document Type: Article

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