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A species barrier limits transmission of chronic wasting disease to mink (Mustela vison)

Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) occurs as sporadic outbreaks associated with ingestion of feed presumably contaminated with some type of prion disease. Mink lack a species barrier to primary oral challenge with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, whereas they have a barrier to such challenge w...

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Autores principales: Harrington, Robert D., Baszler, Timothy V., O'Rourke, Katherine I., Schneider, David A., Spraker, Terry R., Liggitt, H. Denny, Knowles, Donald P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for General Microbiology 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2435087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18343853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.83422-0