PrP genetics in sheep and the implications for scrapie and BSE

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The strong links between PrP genotype and the occurrence of scrapie in sheep strengthen evidence supporting the central importance of the PrP protein in the development of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, despite the fact that the cattle PrP gene has, so far, failed to show any association between PrP alleles and susceptibility to BSE.

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Title: Trends in Microbiology

Abbreviated Title: Trends in Microbiology

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Print): 0966842X

Publication date Created: August 1997

Publication date (Print): August 1997

Volume: 5

Issue: 8

Pages: 331-334

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DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(97)01081-0

PubMed ID: 9263413

SO-VID: 09b31bdb-89b8-40fe-8475-276c76f5510f

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