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Modelling the spread of scrapie in a sheep flock: evidence for increased transmission during lambing seasons.
Archives of virology - 1 Apr 2006
Touzeau S, Chase-Topping M E, Matthews L, Lajous D, Eychenne F, Hunter N, Foster J D, Simm G, Elsen J-M, Woolhouse M E J
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Presence of scrapie infectivity in the placenta suggests the possibility of increased transmission of scrapie during the lambing season. This hypothesis was explored here using a mathematical model of scrapie transmission dynamics which has previously been successfully used to study several scrap...
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