BSE control - internationally recommended approaches

Prions in Humans and Animals

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 620-629

  MacDiarmid, Stuart C ^a   Infanger, Paul ^b   Hornlimann, Beat ^c  

^a Biosecurity New Zealand ^*  (Netherlands)

^b CVO of Canton Lucerne (retired)   (Switzerland)

^c BSE71 92 SVISS Consulting   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77956169687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110200171     Document Type: Chapter

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