Flock originated on the Mozilla platform but then switched over to Chromium in 2010.
The resource flock originated from about 500 sires, such that the animals used in this study belonged to a large number of half-sib families.
The control animal was an animal born in C0, kept until birth campaign 2006 (C2006) in the same flock, and originated from a control flock randomly selected among the list of flocks from which >1 sheep had been tested in 2006 with a test recommended for the detection of atypical scrapie.
H5N1 has decimated poultry flocks in Asia, where it originated before spreading to Africa and Europe (ScienceNOW, 9 February).
The samples thus originated from 58 flocks of sheep, from farms located in 3 coastal and 3 inland districts in Norway (Fig. 1).
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between B. ovis infection, evaluated through clinical, serological and bacteriological findings, and the sexual function, in rams originated from infected flocks of this region where CE appears enzootic.
Group A consisted of 48 goats that originated from 8 flocks in Shanxi Province with a history of CAEV infection, group B samples were collected in 2001 from 20 goats from a mixed flock where sheep and goats were kept together in Tianjin City, and group C consisted of 240 goats that came from two flocks in Tianjin.
In this study, all slaughtered birds originated from the same flock and only one flock per day was slaughtered.
The sheep used in these experiments originated from a flock where scrapie is endemic, resulting in the natural infection of 100% of sheep carrying either the VRQ/VRQ or ARQ/VRQ PrP genotypes.
