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Protective effect of the T112 PrP variant in sheep challenged with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Oct 2009
Saunders G C, Lantier I, Cawthraw S, Berthon P, Moore S J, Arnold M E, Windl O, Simmons M M, Andréoletti O, Bellworthy S, Lantier F
Abstract excerpt
Sheep with an ARQ/ARQ PRNP genotype at codon positions 136/154/171 are highly susceptible to experimental infection with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). However, a number of sheep challenged orally or intracerebrally with BSE were clinically asymptomatic and found to survive or were diagnosed as BSE-negative when culled. Sequencing of the full PRNP gene open reading frame of BSE-susceptible and -resistant...
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