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The Emergence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Related Diseases (2974 words) |
 | Spongiform change is evident in the brain (1), and neuropathologic tests remain the mainstay of a BSE diagnosis. |
| Spongiform encephalopathy has not occurred in dogs; however, in 1990, a case of spongiform encephalopathy was diagnosed in domestic cats; 81 additional cases in cats have occurred with a wide geographic spread throughout the United Kingdom. |
| Preliminary evi-dence of the experimental transmissibility of bovine spon-giform encephalopathy to cattle. |
| Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - An Unknown Quantity? (1555 words) |
| FSE - Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy - a TSE that appeared in 1990 and affects domestic cats. |
| TSE - Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy - a type of disease, split into many strains, which can be transmitted from one animal to another and causes changes in the brain of the sufferer that appear similar to a sponge, and causes pronounced and degenerating ataxia. |
| ZSE - Zoological Spongiform Encephalopathy - A strain of TSE that was found in animals kept in certain British zoos that appeared during the early years of the BSE epidemic. |
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