NR ACNG
AU Chatelain,J.C.; Dautheville-Guibal,C.
TI Ovine scrapie: follow-up of sheep belonging to an endemic scrapie-infected flock.
QU European Journal of Epidemiology 1989 Mar; 5(1): 113-6
PT journal article
AB There is a close similarity between the unconventional virus-induced ovine scrapie and human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Since infection might be transmitted orally, the ovine production of an endemically scrapie-infected farm was studied. About 80% of the annual production are sold (50% as butcher-meat, 30% as breeding animals), and scrapie appears in 20% of the sheep kept on the farm. Was the same proportion of butcher-meat animals scrapie-infected? Since the scrapie agent has been detected in "clinically normal" lambs, the same problem occurs with breeding-sheep and "apparently healthy" animals: are they carriers of the pathogenic agent? Are they responsible for the spread of the ovine disease and/or of the human disease?
MH Animal; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Follow-Up Studies; France; Male; Risk Factors; Scrapie/*epidemiology/transmission; Sheep; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
AD Formation de Recherche Associee C. Bernard Neurochimie des Communications Cellulaires, Hopital St Louis, Paris, France.
SP englisch
PO Italien