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Minimum Effective Dose of Cattle and Sheep BSE for Oral Sheep Infection.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
McGovern Gillian, Martin Stuart, Jeffrey Martin, Dexter Glenda, Hawkins Steve A C, Bellworthy Sue J, Thurston Lisa, Algar Lynne, González Lorenzo
Abstract excerpt
The minimum dose required to cause infection of Romney and Suffolk sheep of the ARQ/ARQ or ARQ/ARR prion protein gene genotypes following oral inoculation with Romney or Suffolk a sheep Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)-derived or cattle BSE-derived agent was investigated using doses ranging from 0.0005g to 5g. ARQ/ARQ sheep which were methionine (M) / threonine (T) heterozygous or T/T homozygous at codon...
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