Does the presence of scrapie affect the ability of current statutory discriminatory tests to detect the presence of BSE?

Current European Commission (EC) surveillance regulations require discriminatory testing of all transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)-positive small ruminant (SR) samples in order to classify them as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or non-BSE. This requires a range of tests, including...

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Main Authors: Simmons, M.M., Chaplin, M.J., Vickery, C.M., Simon, S., Davis, L., Denyer, M., Lockey, R., Stack, M.J., O'Connor, M.J., Bishop, Keith, Gough, Kevin C., Maddison, Ben C., Thorne, L., Spiropoulos, J.
Format: Article
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30239/