Monitoring of clinical signs in goats with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As there is limited information about the clinical signs of BSE and scrapie in goats, studies were conducted to describe the clinical progression of scrapie and BSE in goats and to evaluate a short clinical protocol for its use in detecting scrapie-affected goats in two herds with previously confirmed scrapie cases. Clinical assessments were carried out in five goats intracerebrally infected with the BSE agent as well as five reported scrapie suspects and 346 goats subject to cull from the two herds, 24 of which were retained for further monitoring. The brain and selected lymphoid tissue were examined by postmortem tests for disease confirmation.

Results

The sensitivity and specificity of the short clinical protocol in detecting a scrapie case in the scrapie-affec

SUBMITTER: Konold T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2875668 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature