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Association between incubation time and genotype in sheep experimentally inoculated with scrapie-positive brain homogenate.
American journal of veterinary research - 1 Mar 2006
Bulgin Marie S, Sorensen Sharon J, Matlock Mary E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To compare incubation time and clinical signs of scrapie in codon 136/171 alanine-valine/glutamine-glutamine (AVQQ) experimentally inoculated sheep with that in sheep with the more common 136/171 AAQQ genotype. ANIMALS: 60 Suffolk sheep. PROCEDURE: Twenty-seven 171 QQ ewes purchased from 2 private flocks were bred with a 171 QQ Suffolk ram before being inoculated with a 20% solution of scrapie-positive...
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