TSES: BSE resistance and maternal transmission

• Autores: Duncan MacIntyre
• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 177, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 80-80
• Idioma: inglés
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  • WAS interested to read of the recent confirmation of an isolated case of BSE in the Republic of Ireland. From 1996, wearing two hats, as a veterinary surgeon in general practice, and as a vice-president of the Dexter Cattle Association, I urged Defra to look more closely at the possibility of genetic variation in susceptibility to BSE. Studies had been done, but involved few cattle from the British Isles other than Friesian/Holstein. It was agreed by Professor Patisson of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee that further research would be possible, but he thought that it would take five to seven years to get an answer, by which time cases would be few and far between....