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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
2004-01-01
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Series: | Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement |
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Online Access: | http://www.pressesagro.be/base/text/v8n4/221.pdf |