Prion Remains Infectious after Passage through Digestive System of American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  VerCauteren, Kurt C ^a   Pilon, John L ^a,b   Nash, Paul B ^a,c   Phillips, Gregory E ^a   Fischer, Justin W ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TOLMAR Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; CROW; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE AGENT; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CROWS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867650350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045774     Document Type: Article

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