Scrapie

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Food Biotechnology

A spongiform encephalopathy disease of sheep. See: proteinaceous infectious particle.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

A disease, originally of sheep, but transmissible to other animals, characterized by neurological degeneration caused by accumulation of a structural variant of PrP.

USDA CSREES — Glossary of Biotechnology Terms