The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) as a sensitive bioassay for sheep scrapie

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2975-2985

  Di Bari, Michele Angelo ^a   Chianini, Francesca ^b   Vaccari, Gabriele ^a   Esposito, Elena ^a   Conte, Michela ^a   Eaton, Samantha L ^b   Hamilton, Scott ^b   Finlayson, Jeanie ^b   Steele, Philip J ^b   Dagleish, Mark P ^b   Reid, Hugh W ^b   Bruce, Moira ^c   Jeffrey, Martin ^d   Agrimi, Umberto ^a   Nonno, Romolo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SPECIES COMPARISON; TONSIL; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TITRATION; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PALATINE TONSIL; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRION;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; MUS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PALATINE TONSIL; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 58149386637     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.2008/005520-0     Document Type: Article

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