A descriptive study of the prevalence of atypical and classical scrapie in sheep in 20 European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development of active surveillance programmes for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of small ruminants across Europe has led to the recent identification of a previously undetected form of ovine prion disease, 'atypical' scrapie. Knowledge of the epidemiology of this disease is still limited, as is whether it represents a risk for animal and/or public health. The detection of atypical scrapie has been related to the use of only some of the EU agreed rapid tests. Information about the rapid tests used is not, as yet, available from public reports on the surveillance of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in small ruminants. We collected detailed results of active surveillance from European countries to estimate and to compare the prevalence of atypical s

SUBMITTER: Fediaevsky A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2442063 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature