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Evidence of scrapie transmission via milk

BACKGROUND: The risk of scrapie infection increases with increased duration and proximity of contact between sheep at lambing. Scrapie infectivity has not been detected in milk but cellular prion protein, the precursor of disease-associated prion protein PrP(d), has been found in milk from ruminants...

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Autores principales: Konold, Timm, Moore, S Jo, Bellworthy, Susan J, Simmons, Hugh A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18397513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-4-14