Disease-specific motifs can be identified in circulating nucleic acids from live elk and cattle infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 550-556

  Gordon, Paul M K ^a   Schütz, Ekkehard ^b,c   Beck, Julia ^b   Urnovitz, Howard B ^b   Graham, Catherine ^d   Clark, Renee ^d   Dudas, Sandor ^d   Czub, Stefanie ^d   Sensen, Maria ^a   Brenig, Bertram ^c   Groschup, Martin H ^e   Church, Robert B ^f   Sensen, Christoph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Chronix Biomedical GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY   (Canada)

^e FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DEER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

BOS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 59649091721     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn963     Document Type: Article

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