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Ovine scrapie: priorities and importance.
Folia microbiologica - 1 Jan 2000
Novák M, Vrtiak O J, Mikula I, Tkáciková L
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Ovine and caprine scrapie occupies a unique place among animal transmissive spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). It is an object of intensive biomedicinal, ecological and economical studies. Its causative agents are demonstrably associated with the development of TSE in farmed minks, goats and moufflons. Ovine strains of scrapie occurring in North America (particularly in the USA) differ from strains which occur in...
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