Monitoring of clinical signs in goats with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Konold, Timm ^a   Bone, Gemma E ^a   Phelan, Laura J ^a   Simmons, Marion M ^a   González, Lorenzo ^a   Sisó, Sílvia ^a   Goldmann, Wilfred ^b   Cawthraw, Saira ^a   Hawkins, Steve A C ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; CAPRA HIRCUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY POSTURE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GOAT; GOAT DISEASE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; SCRAPIE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; BRAIN; CATTLE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; SCRAPIE;

EID: 77955481523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-6-13     Document Type: Article

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