Current status of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ruminants

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) encompass subacute neurological degenerative diseases for which the prototypes are scrapie in sheep and some forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in man. The emergence of a new form of TSE in cattle in United Kingdom (UK) since 1986, namely bovine spongi...

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Main Authors: Penders J., Xambeu L., Saegerman C., Thiry E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux 2004-01-01
Series:Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement
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Online Access:http://www.pressesagro.be/base/text/v8n4/221.pdf