Susceptibility of mink to sheep scrapie.
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.
D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008907:Mink; D012608:Scrapie / Q000473:pathology*; D012756:Sheep; D013194:Staining and Labeling