Objects in contact with classical scrapie sheep act as a reservoir for scrapie transmission

Classical scrapie is an environmentally transmissible prion disease of sheep and goats. Prions can persist and remain potentially infectious in the environment for many years and thus pose a risk of infecting animals after re-stocking. In vitro studies using serial protein misfolding cyclic amplific...

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Main Authors: Konold, Timm, Hawkins, Steve A.C., Thurston, Lisa C., Maddison, Ben C., Gough, Kevin C., Duarte, Anthony, Simmons, Hugh A.
Format: Article
Published: Frontiers 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30240/