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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy: investigation of phenotypic variation among passive surveillance cases.
Journal of comparative pathology - 1 May 2011
Stack M J, Moore S J, Davis A, Webb P R, Bradshaw J M, Lee Y H, Chaplin M, Focosi-Snyman R, Thurston L, Spencer Y I, Hawkins S A C, Arnold M E, Simmons M M, Wells G A H
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a prion disease of domesticated cattle, first identified in Great Britain (GB) in 1986. The disease has been characterized by histopathological, immunohistochemical, biochemical and biological properties, which have shown a consistent disease phenotype among cases obtained by passive surveillance. With the advent of active surveillance in 2001, immunological tests for...
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