Transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie to mice: strain variation and the species barrier

E. Bruce, M.; Chree, A.; McConnell, I.; Foster, J.; R. Pearson, G.; Fraser, H.

doi:10.1098/rstb.1994.0036

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Transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and scrapie to mice: strain variation and the species barrier

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences • Mar 29, 1994

Authors:

M. E. Bruce

A. Chree

I. McConnell

Abstract

Transmissions of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from seven unrelated cattle sources have given remarkably uniform disease characteristics in mice, differing from over twenty previous and contemporary transmissions of sheep and goat scrapie. Transmissions to mice of spongiform encephalopathy ...

Subject

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Scrapie

Biology

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