NR ACND
AU Chastel,C.E.
TI BSE a specific bovine disease?
QU Nature 1996 May 30; 381(6581): 360
PT historical article; letter
VT Sir - It has been postulated that BSE is not a variant of scrapie accidentally acquired by Bos taurus but more probably a specific bovine disease associated with cows. Scrapie has been known for more than 200 years but a French veterinary surgeon in southern France, M. Sarradet, described as early as 1883 "a case of scrapie in an ox" (Rev. Veterinaire 3, 310-312; 1883).
IN Der Autor macht mit der Quellenangabe Rev. Vétérinaire 1883; 3: 310-312 darauf aufmerksam, dass der französische Veterinär M. Sarradet bereits 1883 einen Fall von Scrapie bei einem Ochsen in Südfrankreich beschrieb.
ZR 1
MH Animal; Cattle; *Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/history; France; History of Medicine, 19th Cent.; Scrapie; Species Specificity
AD Claude E. Chastel, Laboratoire de Virologie, Faculté de Médicine, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 29285 Brest Cedex, France
SP englisch
PO England
OR Prion-Krankheiten C