Comparative Susceptibility of Sheep of Different Origins, Breeds and PRNP Genotypes to Challenge with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Scrapie

Sheep are natural hosts of the prion disease, scrapie. They are also susceptible to experimental challenge with various scrapie strains and with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which affects cattle and has been accidentally transmitted to a range of other species, including man. Incidence an...

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Autores principales: Houston, Fiona, Goldmann, Wilfred, Foster, James, González, Lorenzo, Jeffrey, Martin, Hunter, Nora
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4654545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143251

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4654545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26587837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143251

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