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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

  • Dolores Gavier Widén

    Publication: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInfectious Diseases of Wild Mammals and Birds in Europe
    PublisherWiley-Blackwell
    Pages487-496
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9781118342442
    ISBN (Print)9781405199056
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012

    Keywords

    • BSE, and the unknowns of TSE, a food-borne zoonotic role for prion
    • CWD as a TSE, in free-ranging/captive deer herds
    • CWD, entity of unknown cause in cervids
    • IHC and PrP Sc in target cells, specific tests for TSE
    • Infectious neurodegenerative, and transformed host proteins
    • Prion infections
    • Tonsillar/rectal biopsies, ante mortem of CWD and scrapie
    • Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
    • TSE, or prion diseases

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