1971•ScienceRequires access
Susceptibility of Mink to Sheep Scrapie
R. P. Hanson, Robert J. Eckroade, Richard F. Marsh, Gabriele M. Zu Rhein, C. L. Kanitz, D. P. Gustafson
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Abstract
A progressive, fatal spongiform polioencephalopathy was induced in mink intracerebrally inoculated with a suspension of brain from a Suffolk sheep with naturally acquired scrapie. The clinical signs and pathological lesions of the experimental disease were indistinguishable from transmissible mink encephalopathy, a disease of undetermined origin that occurs in mink.