Further observations on the experimental production of scrapie in goats and sheep.
Further observations on the experimental production of scrapie in goats and sheep.
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山羊和绵羊痒病实验生产的进一步观察。
DOI:
10.1016/s0368-1742(60)80018-5
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发表时间:
1960
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
G. C. Millson
中科院分区:
文献类型:
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作者:
I. Pattison;G. C. Millson
All of 56 goats developed scrapie in 5 intracerebral passages of brain suspension. The incubation period in the fifth passage was 8-11 months, compared with 15-22 months in the first passage when sheep brain was the inoculum. In a comparison of the intracerebral (i/c) and subcutaneous routes of infection, all of ten goats developed scrapie 12-15 months after i/c infection, and 8 of 10 in the 21st-31st months after s/c infection. But 4 goats given very large amounts of scrapie brain suspension s/c (10 ml. on 30 or 50 consecutive days) developed scrapie in only 11-13 months. The ability of scrapie brain to cause scrapie was not affected by treatment with ribonuclease or deoxyribonuclease, or by long distance transit by ordinary mail. No abnormal rectal temp, was recorded in 2 goats during the incubation and clinical stage of scrapie. Brain suspensions from 5 Swaledale ewes with natural scrapie produced the disease in 7 of 25 Cheviot sheep and 2 of 10 goats 14-29 months after i/c inoculation. Cerebro-spinal fluid and suspensions of pituitary gland, adrenal gland, spleen, pancreas and liver from goats with scrapie caused the disease in goats inoculated i/c, but thyroid suspension did not. A goat developed scrapie 23 months after i/c injection of brain from a healthy goat. This healthy goat had been sub-inoculated 7 months before with blood from lambs with no history of scrapie, which had previously received blood from lambs born to ewes with natural scrapie. Scrapie did not develop in 28 goats kept in contact for 24-34 months with goats having clinical scrapie.-M.G.G.