Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in farm animals diagnosis and prevention
2009
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) are a group of neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals. In humans, these include kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and its variants Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheiner syndrome, and fatal familial insomnia (FFI), in ruminants, scrapie in sheep, goats and mouflons, mad cow disease (BSE), and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk, in carnivores, feline spongiform encephalopaty (FSE), canine spongiform encephalopaty (CSE), and transmissible mink encephalopaty (TME). All prion diseases manifest themselves by disturbances of coordination and dementia, leading to inevitable death regardless of the species
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