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A quantitative assessment of the prion risk associated with wastewater from carcase-handling facilities [PDF]

, 2013
Wastewater from facilities processing livestock that may harbor transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) infectivity is permitted under license for application to land where susceptible livestock may have access. Several previous risk assessments
Adkin, A., Kelly, Louise, Donaldson, Neil   +2 more
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The natural atypical scrapie phenotype is preserved on experimental transmission and sub-passage in PRNP homologous sheep

BMC Veterinary Research, 2010
Background Atypical scrapie was first identified in Norwegian sheep in 1998 and has subsequently been identified in many countries. Retrospective studies have identified cases predating the initial identification of this form of scrapie, and ...
Bellworthy Susan J, Thurston Lisa, Konold Timm, Simmons Marion M, Chaplin Melanie J, Moore S   +5 more
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Eradication of scrapie with selective breeding: are we nearly there? [PDF]

, 2010
Background Following EU decision 2003/100/EC Member States have recently implemented sheep breeding programmes to reduce the prevalence of sheep with TSE susceptible prion genotypes.
Bossers, A., Fred G van Zijderveld, Melchior, M.B., Bossers Alex, Windig, J.J., Davidse, A., Melchior Marielle B, Alex Bossers, Thomas J Hagenaars, Jack J Windig, Windig Jack J, Aart Davidse, Hagenaars, T.H.J., van Zijderveld, F.G., Marielle B Melchior, Zijderveld, F.G., van, Hagenaars Thomas J, Davidse Aart, van Zijderveld Fred G   +18 more
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Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats

, 2023
Scrapie is a naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in sheep, goats and moufflons almost worldwide and is known for about 270 years.
Fast, Christine, Groschup, Martin H.
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Atypical/Nor98 scrapie in the Basque Country: a case report of eight outbreaks

BMC Veterinary Research, 2010
Background Since 2002, an active surveillance program for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in small ruminants in European Union countries allowed identification of a considerable number of atypical cases with similarities to the previously ...
Minguijón Esmeralda, Gómez Nieves, Geijo Mariví, Benedicto Leyre, Maza Sonia, Garrido Joseba M, Rodríguez-Martínez Ana B, Benestad Sylvie L, Juste Ramón A   +8 more
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State-of-the-art review of goat TSE in the European Union, with special emphasis on PRNP genetics and epidemiology [PDF]

, 2009
Scrapie is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goats. It is also the earliest known member in the family of diseases classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) or prion diseases, which includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in ...
Olivier Andreéoletti, Groschup, Martin H., Simone Peletto, Foster, James, Barillet, F., Acin, Cristina, Pierluigi Acutis, Peletto, S., Langeveld, J., Theodoros Sklaviadis, Keulen, L.J.M., van, Bossers, Alex, Vaccari, G., Van Keulen, Lucien, Foster, J., Acin, C., Cristina Acin, Andreoletti, O., Jan Langeveld, Goldmann, Wilfred, Umberto Agrimi, Sklaviadis, T., Vaccari, Gabriele, Langeveld, Jan, van Keulen, L., Groschup, M.H., Peletto, Simone, Bossers, A., Gabriele Vaccari, James Foster, Panagiotidis, C.H., Cynthia H. Panagiotidis, Alex Bossers, Badiola, J. J., Badiola, J.J., van Keulen, L.J.M., Juan J. Badiola, Francis Barillet, Sklaviadis, Theodoros, Barillet, Francis, Langeveld, J.P.M., Wilfred Goldmann, Panagiotidis, Cynthia H., Acutis, Pierluigi, Andreeoletti, O., Badiola, Juan J., Goldmann, W., Panagiotidis, C. H., Groschup, M. H., Andreoletti, Olivier, Acutis, P., Agrimi, Umberto, Lucien Van Keulen, Martin H. Groschup, Agrimi, U.   +54 more
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Advanced survival models for risk-factor analysis in scrapie [PDF]

, 2007
Because of the confounding effects of long incubation duration and flock management, accurate epidemiological studies of scrapie outbreaks are difficult to carry out.
Joly, Pierre, Fidelle, Francis, Schelcher, François, Barillet, Francis, Andréoletti, Olivier, Corbière, Fabien, Laphitz-Bordet, Nathalie   +6 more
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Sheep scrapie and deer rabies in England prior to 1800

Prion, 2023
Eighteenth-century England witnessed the emergence of two neurological diseases in animals. Scrapie, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goats that appears in classical and atypical forms.
Anthony Ness, Judd Aiken, Debbie McKenzie   +2 more
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Archival search for historical atypical scrapie in sheep reveals evidence for mixed infections. [PDF]

J Gen Virol, 2015
Natural scrapie in sheep occurs in classical and atypical forms, which may be distinguished on the basis of the associated neuropathology and properties of the disease-associated prion protein on Western blots. First detected in 1998, atypical scrapie is
Chong A, Kennedy I, Goldmann W, Green A, González L, Jeffrey M, Hunter N.   +6 more
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Caprine prion gene polymorphisms are associated with decreased incidence of classical scrapie in goat herds in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2011
The application of genetic breeding programmes to eradicate transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in goats is an important aim for reasons of animal welfare as well as human food safety and food security. Based on the positive impact of Prnp genetics
Bossers, A., Windl, O., González Lorenzo, James Foster, Parnham David, Foster James, Alex Bossers, Ryan, K., Goldmann Wilfred, Ginny Saunders, Xicohtencatl Rosa, Kelly Ryan, Paula Stewart, Wilfred Goldmann, Lorenzo González, Foster, J., David Parnham, Stewart Paula, Goldmann, W., Nora Fernandez, A., B., Rosa Xicohtencatl, Fernandez Nora, Bossers Alex, Parnham, D., Saunders, G., Stewart, P., Xicohtencatl, R., Fernandez, N., Windl Otto, Gonzalez, L., Ryan Kelly, Saunders Ginny, Otto Windl   +33 more
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