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Eradication of scrapie with selective breeding: are we nearly there?

BACKGROUND: Following EU decision 2003/100/EC Member States have recently implemented sheep breeding programmes to reduce the prevalence of sheep with TSE susceptible prion genotypes. The present paper investigates the progress of the breeding programme in the Netherlands. The PrP genotype frequenci...

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Autores principales: Melchior, Marielle B, Windig, Jack J, Hagenaars, Thomas J, Bossers, Alex, Davidse, Aart, van Zijderveld, Fred G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2873516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20441587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-6-24