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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 scrapie outbreaks in Scottish sheep flocks. It was applied here to the Langlade experimental sheep flock (INRA Toulouse,...
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