Article
Florid plaques in ovine PrP transgenic mice infected with an experimental ovine BSE.
EMBO reports - 1 Oct 2001
Crozet C, Bencsik A, Flamant F, Lezmi S, Samarut J, Baron T
Abstract excerpt
The occurrence of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), raises the important question of the sources of human contamination. The possibility that sheep may have been fed with BSE-contaminated foodstuff raises the serious concern that BSE may now be present in sheep without being distinguishable from scrapie. Sensitive models are urgently needed given the...
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