Spongiform encephalopathy found in cat
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
A detailed account is given of the occurrence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), current research into the aetiology of this new disease of cattle, and the relationship between BSE, scrapie and other similar diseases. Epidemiology, clinical signs, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and control are described.
متن کاملBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, caused by a prion, that mainly affects cattle. Other ruminant species, cats, non-human primates and humans are occasionally affected; this disease is called feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE) in cats, and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) in people. BSE is a relatively new disease that was first reported in ...
متن کاملBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Detailed tables containing information on countries in which BSE has been reported are provided by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on its website (BSE specific data – www.oie.int). Apart from the 184 169 cases in cattle that were diagnosed in the UK up to the end of 2011, 20 other European countries also recorded the disease, some such as Portugal, Switzerland and Ireland at high...
متن کاملBovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, caused by a prion, that mainly affects cattle. Other ruminants, cats, nonhuman primates and humans are occasionally affected; this disease is called feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE) in cats, and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in people. BSE is primarily acquired by eating prion-containing tissues from a...
متن کاملTransmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are neurodegenerative diseases caused by prions. Although these infections usually remain asymptomatic for years, the disease is always progressive and fatal once the clinical signs develop. TSEs affecting animals include scrapie (tremblante de mouton, rida), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, “mad cow disease”), feline spongiform encephalopa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/345194c0