Scientific Opinion on a request for a review of a scientific publication concerning the zoonotic potential of ovine scrapie prions

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ … - EFSA Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The factors that modulate the transmissibility of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
(TSE) and the approaches for the study of their zoonotic potential are reviewed. The paper …

Characterization of goat prions demonstrates geographical variation of scrapie strains in Europe and reveals the composite nature of prion strains

R Nonno, A Marin-Moreno, J Carlos Espinosa… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is the only animal prion which has been
recognized as a zoonotic agent so far. The identification of BSE in two goats raised the need …

Scrapie incidence and PRNP polymorphisms: rare small ruminant breeds of Sicily with TSE protecting genetic reservoirs

M Vitale, S Migliore, M La Giglia, P Alberti… - BMC Veterinary …, 2016 - Springer
Background Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) are fatal neurodegenerative
diseases of several mammalian species, including humans. In Italy, the active surveillance …

Further characterisation of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy phenotypes after inoculation of cattle with two temporally separated sources of sheep scrapie …

T Konold, R Nonno, J Spiropoulos, MJ Chaplin… - BMC Research …, 2015 - Springer
Background The infectious agent responsible for the bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE) epidemic in Great Britain is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) strain …

Detection and partial discrimination of atypical and classical bovine spongiform encephalopathies in cattle and primates using real-time quaking-induced conversion …

E Levavasseur, AG Biacabe, E Comoy, A Culeux… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The transmission of classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-BSE) through
contaminated meat product consumption is responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob …

L-BSE experimentally transmitted to sheep presents as a unique disease phenotype

MM Simmons, MJ Chaplin, T Konold, C Casalone… - Veterinary …, 2016 - Springer
Apart from prion protein genotype, the factors determining the host range and susceptiblity
for specific transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents remain unclear. It is known that …

Protocol for further laboratory investigations into the distribution of infectivity of Atypical BSE

European Food Safety Authority - EFSA Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information on the pathogenesis and tissue distribution of Atypical Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle through the study of field cases and …

Clinical, pathological, and molecular features of classical and L-type atypical-BSE in goats

E Vallino Costassa, A D'Angelo, M Mazza, D Meloni… - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Monitoring of small ruminants for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) has
recently become more relevant after two natural scrapie suspected cases of goats were …

Acquired transmissibility of sheep-passaged L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion to wild-type mice

H Okada, K Masujin, K Miyazawa, T Yokoyama - Veterinary Research, 2015 - Springer
L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy (L-BSE) is an atypical form of BSE that is
transmissible to cattle and several lines of prion protein (PrP) transgenic mice, but not to wild …

Molecular characterisation of atypical BSE prions by mass spectrometry and changes following transmission to sheep and transgenic mouse models

A Gielbert, JK Thorne, JM Plater, L Thorne, PC Griffiths… - Plos one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The prion hypothesis proposes a causal relationship between the misfolded prion protein
(PrPSc) molecular entity and the disease transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) …