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Breeding with resistant rams leads to rapid control of classical scrapie in affected sheep flocks.
Veterinary research - 11 Jan 2011
Nodelijk Gonnie, van Roermund Herman J W, van Keulen Lucien J M, Engel Bas, Vellema Piet, Hagenaars Thomas J
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep, is modulated by the genetic make-up of the sheep. Scrapie control policies, based on selecting animals of resistant genotype for breeding, have recently been adopted by the Netherlands and other European countries. Here we assess the effectiveness of a breeding programme based on selecting rams of resistant genotype to obtain outbreak...
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