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Breeding programmes for TSE resistance in British sheep. II. Assessing the impact on the prevalence and incidence of scrapie.
Preventive veterinary medicine - 16 Jan 2006
Gubbins S, Roden J A
Abstract excerpt
By establishing a breeding programme for transmissible spongiform encephalopathie (TSE) resistance, there are plans to eradicate sheep TSEs from member states of the European Union (EU). In this paper, we used a simple age- and genotype-structured model to assess the impact of four breeding strategies on the prevalence and incidence of scrapie in the British sheep flock. The strategies ranged from the minimum EU...
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