Methods for differentiating prion types in food-producing animals

Prions are an enigma amongst infectious disease agents as they lack a genome yet confer specific pathologies thought to be dictated mainly, if not solely, by the conformation of the disease form of the prion protein (PrPSc). Prion diseases affect humans and animals, the latter including the food-pro...

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Main Authors: Gough, Kevin C., Rees, Helen C., Ives, Sarah E., Maddison, Ben C.
Format: Article
Published: MDPI 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38512/