Sheep with scrapie and mastitis transmit infectious prions through the milk

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1136-1139

  Ligios, Ciriaco ^a   Cancedda, Maria Giovanna ^a   Carta, Antonello ^b   Santucciu, Cinzia ^a   Maestrale, Caterina ^a   Demontis, Francesca ^a   Saba, Mariangela ^a   Patta, Cristiana ^a   DeMartini, James C ^c   Aguzzi, Adriano ^d   Sigurdson, Christina J ^d,e,f  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

^b Research Unit of Genetics and Biotechnology   (Italy)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION RISK; LACTATION; LENTIVIRINAE; LENTIVIRUS INFECTION; MASTITIS; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LENTIVIRUS INFECTIONS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTITIS; MICROSCOPY; MILK; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VISNA-MAEDI VIRUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78650664037     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02022-10     Document Type: Article

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