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Clinical Examination Protocol to Detect Atypical and Classical Scrapie in Sheep
Published on: January 19, 2014
[First description of scrapie in the free state of Bavaria--a case report]
Joachim Weikel1, Anne Buschmann, Martin H Groschup
1Zentralinstitut Tiergesundheitsdienst Bayern e.V. Joachim.Weikel@tgd.bayern.de
Berliner Und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift
|April 12, 2003
Abstract:
We here report on the first case of scrapie in Bavaria. The post mortem of a six year old ewe of the breed German grey Heath with a suspected subclinical calcinosis revealed typical histopathological signs of a spongiform encephalopathy and immunohistochemistry was positive for PrPSc in the cervical part of the spinal cord. Eight out of 18 sheep of the herd showed clinical symptoms.
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