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Serial passage of sheep scrapie inoculum in Suffolk sheep.
Veterinary pathology - 1 Jan 2009
Hamir A N, Kunkle R A, Richt J A, Greenlee J J, Miller J M
Abstract excerpt
Scrapie is a naturally occurring fatal neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goats. Susceptibility to the disease is partly dependent upon the genetic makeup of the host. In a recent study, it was shown that sheep intracerebrally inoculated with a US scrapie agent (No. 13-7) developed scrapie and survived for an average of 19 months post inoculation. In the present study, when this scrapie inoculum was further...
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