Limited detection of sternal bone marrow infectivity in the clinical phase of experimental bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
Limited detection of sternal bone marrow infectivity in the clinical phase of experimental bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
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实验性牛海绵状脑病(BSE)临床阶段胸骨骨髓感染性检测有限
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1999
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M. Dawson
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G. Wells;S. Hawkins;R. Green;Y. Spencer;I. Dexter;M. Dawson
A RECENTLY published report (Wells and others 1998) updated interim findings in a sequential time point study which is examining the spread of infectivity and development of pathological changes in cattle exposed orally to infection with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) (Wells and others 1994, 1996). These previous results described the schedule of examination of cattle, killed from two to 40 months after oral exposure, and the development of clinical signs in cattle 35 to 37 months after the exposure. They also demonstrated infectivity by mouse bioassay in: distal ileum (sampled from cattle six to 18 months, 38 months and 40 months after exposure); central nervous system brain and spinal cord (sampled from cattle 32 to 40 months after exposure); and sensory ganglia dorsal root ganglia (sampled from cattle 32 to 40 months after exposure) and trigeminal ganglion (sampled from cattle 36 months and 38 months after exposure). No infectivity had been detected in any of the 35 remaining tissues for which assays were complete at June 1997 (that is, those sampled from cattle two to 22 months after exposure). Mouse bioassays of a large range of tissues from all sequential kill time points of the study have now been completed (at December 1998) and will be reported in full elsewhere. This short communication reports additional data on the bioassay in C57B1-J6 mice of bone marrow, completing results for this tissue from all cattle in the study (Wells and others 1998). Details of the experimental design of the study have been described previously (Wells and others 1996,1998). Bone marrow from the sternum (cancellous bone from the centre of the third or fourth sternebra) was sampled, as for each of the tis-