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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
卷 19, 期 11, 页码 1731-1739出版社
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1911.121341
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- Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre
- Medical Research Council (UK)
- European Union
- Medical Research Council [MC_U123160655, MC_U123160653, MC_U123192748] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U123160653, MC_U123160655, MC_U123192748] Funding Source: UKRI
Public and animal health controls to limit human exposure to animal prions are focused on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), but other prion strains in ruminants may also have zoonotic potential. One example is atypical/Nor98 scrapie, which evaded statutory diagnostic methods worldwide until the early 2000s. To investigate whether sheep infected with scrapie prions could be another source of infection, we inoculated transgenic mice that overexpressed human prion protein with brain tissue from sheep with natural field cases of classical and atypical scrapie, sheep with experimental BSE, and cattle with BSE. We found that these mice were susceptible to BSE prions, but disease did not develop after prolonged post-inoculation periods when mice were inoculated with classical or atypical scrapie prions. These data are consistent with the conclusion that prion disease is less likely to develop in humans after exposure to naturally occurring prions of sheep than after exposure to epizootic BSE prions of ruminants.
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