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Maternal transmission studies of BSE in sheep.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2004
Foster J D, Goldmann W, McKenzie C, Smith A, Parnham D W, Hunter N
Abstract excerpt
If BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) infected the UK sheep population concurrently with cattle, it would only now be maintained by transmission between sheep by routes which could include from mother to lamb either in utero or via perinatal close contact. In this study of experimental BSE, Cheviot ewes challenged orally with BSE cattle brain produced lambs of various PrP genotypes over the next 7 years. Of...
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