Environmental sources of scrapie prions

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 11560-11562

  Maddison, Ben C ^a   Baker, Claire A ^a   Terry, Linda A ^b   Bellworthy, Susan J ^b   Thorne, Leigh ^b   Rees, Helen C ^a   Gough, Kevin 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; POLLUTANT; PRION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FARM ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; ANIMAL; POLLUTANT; PRION; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

CERVIDAE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957962041     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01133-10     Document Type: Article

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