Discrepant epidemiological patterns between classical and atypical scrapie in sheep flocks under French TSE control measures

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 338-340

  Fediaevsky, Alexandre ^a,b   Gasqui, Patrick ^b   Calavas, Didier ^a   Ducrot, Christian ^b  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b EPIA   (France)

Author keywords

Communicable disease control; Epidemiology; Scrapie; Sheep; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FRANCE; HERD; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE; SCRAPIE AGENT; SHEEP; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH SURVEY; PRION DISEASES; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FRANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRION DISEASES; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

EID: 77955282310     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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