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Presumptive BSE cases with an aberrant prion protein phenotype in Switzerland, 2011: Lack of prion disease in experimentally inoculated cattle and bovine prion protein transgenic mice.
Transboundary and emerging diseases - 1 Oct 2018
Serra F, Dudas S, Torres J M, Anderson R, Oevermann A, Espinosa J C, Czub S, Seuberlich T
Abstract excerpt
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is caused by different prion strains that are discriminated by the molecular characteristics of the pathological prion protein. In 2011, Switzerland reported two presumptive cases of BSE in cattle with a prion protein phenotype different from previously described strains, and it was unclear whether these findings were related to a transmissible disease and have implications...
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