Putative emergence of classical scrapie in a background of enzootic atypical scrapie

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1646-1650

  Orge, Leonor ^a   Oliveira, Ana ^b   Machado, Carla ^a   Lima, Carla ^a   Ochoa, Cristina ^a   Silva, João ^a   Carvalho, Renata ^a   Tavares, Paula ^a   Almeida, Paula ^a   Ramos, Manuel ^a   Pinto, M José ^b   Simas, J Pedro ^c  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Investigacao Veterinaria   (Portugal)

^b Direcção Geral de Veterinária   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; ENZOOTIC ATYPICAL SCRAPIE; EPIDEMIC; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; ENDEMIC DISEASES; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 77952695834     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.018879-0     Document Type: Article

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