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Susceptibility of young sheep to oral infection with bovine spongiform encephalopathy decreases significantly after weaning.
Journal of virology - 1 Nov 2012
Hunter Nora, Houston Fiona, Foster James, Goldmann Wilfred, Drummond Dawn, Parnham David, Kennedy Iain, Green Andrew, Stewart Paula, Chong Angela
Abstract excerpt
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) (or prion disease) that is readily transmissible to sheep by experimental infection and has the shortest incubation period in animals with the ARQ/ARQ PRNP genotype (at codons 136, 154, and 171). Because it is possible that sheep in the United Kingdom could have been infected with BSE by being fed contaminated meat and bone...
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