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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: An Overview
ASAIO Journal, 2000Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), widely known as "mad cow disease," is a chronic, degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle. Worldwide, there have been more than 180,000 cases since the disease was first diagnosed in 1986 in Great Britain.
L A, Detwiler, R, Rubenstein
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Germany
Journal of Veterinary Medicine, Series B, 1994SummaryBovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been described as an epidemic central nervous disorder in cattle from the United Kingdom. The disease is thought to have emerged by an interspecies transmission of the scrapie agent of sheep to cattle, after feeding scrapie‐contaminated meat and bone meal (MBM).
O.‐R. Kaaden +10 more
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Poland
Veterinary Record, 2005ON March 30, 2001, the recommendation of the scientific steering committee (SSC) on the geographical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) risk (GBR) in Poland was adopted (SSC 2001). Due to an extremely high external challenge from 1991 to 2001 (approximately 1·7 million tonnes of meat and bone meal [MBM] had been imported since 1991 and ...
M P, Polak, J F, Zmudzinski
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Aquaculture
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2008Dietary consumption of fish is widely recommended because of the beneficial effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on the risks of cardiovascular and Alzheimer's diseases. The American Heart Association currently recommends eating at least two servings of fish per week.
Robert P, Friedland +2 more
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy☆
2008Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was first identified in 1986 and to date more than 184 000 cases have been identified in the UK and more than 5000 in other countries, mainly, but not exclusively, in Europe. BSE was transmitted through contaminated feed and legislative measures to limit exposure to infection have resulted in a decline in the ...
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
2003Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as ‘mad cow disease,’ belongs to the group of diseases previously known as the subacute, transmissible, spongiform encephalopathies and now often referred to as prion diseases. The clinical signs are more readily detected in the early stages by those familiar with the individual cow's habits, such
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[Bovine spongiform encephalopathy].
Pathologie-biologie, 2005The identification of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in human strongly reinforced the perception of risks associated with the infectious agent involved in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). The development of rapid tests for the diagnosis of BSE by the detection of the abnormal prion protein allowed a huge increase in surveillance of the
T, Baron, D, Calavas
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics), 2003Early epidemiological studies identified bovine spongiform encephalopathy as a feed-borne infection associated with infected meat-and-bone meal in animal feed. The infection may have derived from scrapie in sheep, a spontaneous genetic mutation in cattle, or a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in another mammalian species.
M J, Prince +5 more
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[Bovine spongiform encephalopathy].
Immunitat und Infektion, 1993The bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a new bovine disease, was diagnosed first in the U.K. in 1985. Primarily an object of interest to scientific and news media, it has become a subject of research to some specialists only. Some aspects seem to point out the importance and potential danger of this disease to humans, too.
S, Schneider, P M, Shah, W, Stille
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