1) Animal disease 2) Disease of sheep 3) Foodborne illness 4) Sheep and goat disease 5) The tse of sheep or goats
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a wasting disease of sheep and goats, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE, like BSE of cattle) and believed to be caused by a prion. Efforts have been made in some countries to breed for sheep genotypes resistant to scrapie.
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Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats. It is one of several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or `mad cow disease`) and chronic wasting disease of deer. Like other spongiform encephalopathies, scrapie is caused by a p.....
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disease of the animals nervous system.
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fatal neurodegenerative disease of sheep and, less often, goats. Scrapie has existed in Europe for more than 200 years and has been endemic in ... [4 related articles]
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A chronic neurological disease of sheep and goats, similar to other spongiform encephalopathies and much used as a model for studying the diseases. Controversy still surrounds the nature of the transmissible agent slow viruses are proposed by some workers, prions by an increasing number of others. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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A fatal, degenerative neurological disease of sheep and goats. The similarity of scrapie to bovine s
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The TSE of sheep or goats.
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A chronic neurological disease of sheep and goats, similar to other spongiform encephalopathies and much used as a model for studying the diseases. Controversy still surrounds the nature of the transmissible agent - slow viruses are proposed by some workers, prions by an increasing number of others.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: skrap′ē, skrā′pē Definitions: 1. A communicable spongiform encephalopathy of the central nervous system of sheep and goats caused by a prion and characterized by a very long incubation period followed by pruritus, abnormalities of gait, and invariably death; it resembles Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease...
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the TSE of sheep and goats. A fatal brain disease.
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Slow, progressive disease of the central nervous system.
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n] - a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
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form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that primarily affects sheep
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noun a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
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Fatal disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system, causing deterioration of the brain cells, and leading to the characteristic staggering gait and other behavioural abnormalities, before death. It is caused by the presence of an abnormal version of the brain protein PrP and is related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the ...
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Scrapie is a fatal, degenerative disease affecting the central nervous system, one of the class of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
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a wasting disease of sheep and goats, a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE, like BSE of cattle) and believed to be caused by a prion. Efforts have been made in some countries to breed for sheep genotypes resistant to scrapie.
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