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Primary isolation of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent in mice: agent definition based on a review of 150 transmissions.
Journal of comparative pathology - 1 Jan 2000
Green R, Horrocks C, Wilkinson A, Hawkins S A C, Ryder S J
Abstract excerpt
In the epizootic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Great Britain, the cattle in which a positive diagnosis was made numbered almost 180 000, but strain characterization was performed on only a very small sample of these cases. This report describes the results of BSE transmission to Prnp(a) mice from 150 transmission experiments at the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) over the last decade. These...
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