Infectious scrapie agent is apprently not as small as recent claims suggest
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Bioscience Reports
- Vol. 3 (6), 563-568
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01120701
Abstract
A potentially important claim that the minimum size of infectious scrapie agent is 50 000 Mr or less has been investigated. Our results suggest that the agent is larger and that the original experiment was mis-interpreted.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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