Chronic Wasting Disease in Bank Voles: Characterisation of the Shortest Incubation Time Model for Prion Diseases

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Di Bari, Michele Angelo ^a   Nonno, Romolo ^a   Castilla, Joaquín ^b   D'Agostino, Claudia ^a   Pirisinu, Laura ^a   Riccardi, Geraldina ^a   Conte, Michela ^a   Richt, Juergen ^c,e   Kunkle, Robert ^c   Langeveld, Jan ^d   Vaccari, Gabriele ^a   Agrimi, Umberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CIC BIOGUNE   (Spain)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; VOLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIAN PRION; MURIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84875985295     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003219     Document Type: Article

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