Scrapie diagnosis in a goat and four Santa Inês sheep from the same herd in Brazil
Scrapie is a fatal and progressive transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of natural occurrence in sheep and goats. The suspicion of scrapie may be based on clinical signs; however, the detection of pathological features of the prionic protein (PrP) in target tissues is necessary to diagnose...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352015000601625&lng=en&tlng=en |