South-East Asia bovine populations and the Japanese cattle breeds do not harbour the E211K variant of the PRNP

An important outcome of intensive worldwide Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) obtained with the surveillance by The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/figures. htm), has been the detection of atypical BSE in cattle. The discovery of a prion protein gen...

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Main Authors: George Msalya, Takeshi Shimogiri, Yuichiro Matsumoto, Shin Okamoto, Kotaro Kawabe, Yoshizane Maeda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-02-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/2996