SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: European Union’s reactions to the crisis in the UK
... Several early warning signs about a possible species jump to humans were misread. In spring 1990 several domestic cats were diagnosed with spongiform encephalopathy. A short lived panic among the British ...
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Imputation accuracy of bovine spongiform encephalopathy associated PRNP indel polymorphisms from middle density SNPs arrays
... Sander P., Hamann H., Pfeiffer I., Wemheuer W., Brenig B., Groschup M.H., Ziegler U., Distl O., Leeb T. (2004): Analy- sis of sequence variability of the bovine prion protein gene (PRNP) in German cattle breeds. ...
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Dissociation of Prion Protein Amyloid Seeding from Transmission of a Spongiform Encephalopathy
... GSS-22 mice overexpressing PrP 101L develop a nontrans- missible prion disease. The dramatic differences in the amounts and distribution of PrP TSE seen in 101LL-SP1 and 101LL-SP2 compared with GSS-22 mice can be ...
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Somatic cell mutations in cerebral tissue of cattle affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy
... Jakob disease (CJD) has been categorised into three main forms: 1) sporadic cases with no known environ- mental cause (85%) [2]; 2) familial cases with a domi- nant inherited mutation of the PRNP gene (10-15%) [3]; 3) ...
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The spatio temporal epidemiology of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Foot and mouth disease in Great Britain : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Massey University
... 2000a, 'Temporal aspects of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy epidemic in Great Britain: Individual animal-associated risk factors for disease' , Veterinary.. 1 974, 'Cross-validatory[r] ...
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Report on the monitoring and testing of ruminants for the presence of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) in the EU 2004
... transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in the European ...bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 2001, more than 41 million cattle have been tested, in addition to those tested as ...
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Effect of autolysis on the specificity of bovine spongiform encephalopathy rapid tests
... Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has highlighted some problems with BSE rapid test performance, the most significant being the number of initially reactive samples and the false positive results on ...
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Highly Sensitive Detection of Small Ruminant Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy within Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Mixes by Serial Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification
... bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s as a result of the recy- cling of TSE-infected bovine slaughter offals via meat and bone meal feed additives within the ...
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Studies of the transmissibility of the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to the domestic chicken
... bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) occurred accidentally to cattle and several other mammalian species via feed supplemented with meat and bone meal contaminated with infected bovine ...
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Consumer reactions to risk information on bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Japan
... Objectives To investigate the impact of information on foodborne disease on consumers, we quantified consumers’ anxiety, purchasing behaviors, and willingness-to-pay (WTP) in response to the reading of newspaper articles ...
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Compensations for the losses caused by bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the Czech Republic
... Since 2001 when the fi rst case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was identifi ed in the Czech Republic, a total of 27 infected cows have been detected. A single outbreak of BSE in 2007 confi rms that, ...
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Mapping of Multiple Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
... OVINE spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a ods following experimental challenge of sheep with dif- chronic, degenerative disorder affecting the cen- ferent sources of scrapie and BSE (see Hunter 1999 tral ...
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Central nervous system gene expression changes in a transgenic mouse model for bovine spongiform encephalopathy
... Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a comprehensive genome wide gene expression study was conducted at different time points of the disease on mice genetically modified to model the bovine species brain in ...
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Prionemia and Leukocyte-Platelet-Associated Infectivity in Sheep Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Models
... The dynamics of the circulation and distribution of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) agents in the blood of in- fected individuals remain largely unknown. This clearly limits the understanding ...
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Transmission of sheep-bovine spongiform encephalopathy to pigs
... feline spongiform encephalopathy; FC: frontal cortex; GIT: gastrointestinal tract; GFAP: glial fibrillary acidic protein; GALT: gut associ- ated lymphoid tissues; H&E: hematoxylin and eosin; HC: ...
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Report on the monitoring and testing of ruminants for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in 2001
... bovine spongiform encephalopathy has been developed under two different legal frameworks the adoption of the Regulation No 999/2001 being the turning ...
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) – Infectious, Contagious, Zoonotic or Production Disease?
... bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...missible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), to review the epidemiology of BSE, and to address the question of how to classify ...with spongiform vacuolation ...
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Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy-Specific PrPSc by Treatment with Heat and Guanidine Thiocyanate
... 2. Goldmann, W., N. Hunter, T. Martin, M. Dawson, and J. Hope. 1991. Different forms of the bovine PrP gene have five or six copies of a short, G-C-rich element within the protein coding exon. J. Gen. Virol. 72:201–204. ...
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Susceptibility of Young Sheep to Oral Infection with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Decreases Significantly after Weaning
... mal host protein, PrP C . PrP Sc is believed to form all or part of the infectious agent (44). The natural sheep TSE is scrapie; however, sheep can also be experimentally infected with bovine spongiform ...
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Highly sensitive detection of small ruminant bovine spongiform encephalopathy within transmissible spongiform encephalopathy mixes by serial protein misfolding cyclic amplification
... bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s as a result of the recy- cling of TSE-infected bovine slaughter offals via meat and bone meal feed additives within the ...
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