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Evidence of scrapie transmission to sheep via goat milk.
BMC veterinary research - 17 Sept 2016
Konold Timm, Thorne Leigh, Simmons Hugh A, Hawkins Steve A C, Simmons Marion M, González Lorenzo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous studies confirmed that classical scrapie can be transmitted via milk in sheep. The current study aimed to investigate whether scrapie can also be transmitted via goat milk using in vivo (new-born lambs fed milk from scrapie-affected goats due to the unavailability of goat kids from guaranteed scrapie-free herds) and in vitro methods (serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification [sPMCA] on...
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