Prions are secreted in milk from clinically normal scrapie-exposed sheep

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 8293-8296

  Maddison, B C ^a   Baker, C A ^a   Rees, H C ^a   Terry, L A ^b   Thorne, L ^b   Bellworthy, S J ^b   Whitelam, G C ^a   Gough, K C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MILK; PRPSC PROTEINS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 67749104664     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00051-09     Document Type: Article

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