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Prevalence of vacuolar lesions consistent with scrapie in the brains of healthy cull sheep of the Shetland Islands.
The Veterinary record - 14 Oct 2000
Begara-McGorum I, Clark A M, Martin S, Jeffrey M
Abstract excerpt
To determine the levels of background scrapie-like pathology in the brains of clinically normal adult sheep, the brains of 1106 sheep from 28 known scrapie-infected flocks and nine apparently uninfected flocks were examined during 1998 and 1999. One per cent of the brains had vacuolar pathology and disease-specific accumulations of prion protein consistent with a diagnosis of scrapie. All the positive animals had...
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