Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

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Key Facts

Abbreviation
BSE
Pronunciation
/ˈboʊˌvaɪn ˈspənʤɪˌfɔrm ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɔpəθi/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology

Examples in Context

  1. In this course, the molecular and biochemical basis of the prion diseases, which include bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfedt-Jakob disease and kuru will be examined.
  2. Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is an untreatable, universally-fatal disease that can be contracted by eating parts of an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE or mad cow disease ).
  3. Prions, the infective particles behind diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), can breach standard sewage treatment methods, new research shows.
  4. Known as a " prion " this mysterious protein lies at the heart of the 1996 British BSE ( Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy(BSE) ) crisis.
  5. There have never been scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, African horse sickness, African swine fever, vesicular stomatitis, lumpy skin disease, Rift Valley fever and peste-des-petits ruminants in china.

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