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Experimental transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to European red deer ( Cervus elaphus elaphus ) by Mark P Dagleish; Stuart Martin; Philip Steele; Jeanie Finlayson; Sílvia Sisó; Scott Hamilton; Francesca Chianini; Hugh W Reid; Lorenzo González; Martin Jeffrey is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a member of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), primarily affects cattle. Transmission is via concentrate feed rations contaminated with infected meat and bone meal (MBM). In addition to cattle, other food animal species are susceptible to BSE and also pose a potential threat to human health as consumption of infected meat products is the cause of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, which is invariably fatal. In the UK, farmed and free ranging deer were almost certainly exposed to BSE infected MBM in proprietary feeds prior to legislation banning its inclusion. Therefore, although BSE has never been diagnosed in any deer species, a possible risk to human health remains via ingestion of cervine products. Chronic wasting disease (CWD), also a TSE, naturally infects several cervid species in North America and is spreading rapidly in both captive and free-ranging populations. ## Results Here we show that European red deer (__Cervus elaphus elaphus__) are susceptible to intra-cerebral (i/c) challenge with BSE positive cattle brain pool material resulting in clinical neurological disease and weight loss by 79
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- Author
- Mark P Dagleish; Stuart Martin; Philip Steele; Jeanie Finlayson; Sílvia Sisó; Scott Hamilton; Francesca Chianini; Hugh W Reid; Lorenzo González; Martin Jeffrey
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2005-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1746-6148)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)