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Capacity Building for Surveillance and prevention of BSE
and other zoonotic diseases

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR
TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM
ENCEPHALOPATHIES

course manual

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Table of contents

Part I   [644 Kb]

Foreword
Course objectives
Introduction to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
Laboratory-based surveillance and epidemiology

Part II   [339 Kb]

Biosafety
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathies diagnostic methodology
• Appendix 1: Authors and course contributors
  
• Appendix 2: Related background reading and Web links
• Appendix 3: Glossary of technical terms and acronyms
• Appendix 4: Project summary