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Descriptor English: Scrapie
Descriptor Spanish: Scrapie
Descriptor scrapie
Entry term(s) rida
tembladera de los ovinos
tembladera del cordero
Scope note: Enfermedad mortal del sistema nervioso que afecta a ovejas y cabras, caracterizada por prurito, debilidad e incoordinación de la locomoción. Está originada por partículas infecciosas proteináceas llamadas PRIONES.
Descriptor Portuguese: Scrapie
Descriptor French: Tremblante
Entry term(s): Rida
Tree number(s): C01.207.800.717
C10.228.228.800.717
C10.574.843.850
C22.836.799
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012608
Scope note: A fatal disease of the nervous system in sheep and goats, characterized by pruritus, debility, and locomotor incoordination. It is caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called PRIONS.
Annotation: a prion dis; usually animal: check tag ANIMAL; if in sheep, coord IM with SHEEP (NIM) but do not index under SHEEP DISEASES; if in goats, coord IM with GOAT DISEASES (IM) & GOATS (NIM)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 68
History Note: 68(66)
Related: PrPSc Proteins MeSH
Prion Diseases MeSH
Prions MeSH
DeCS ID: 12989
Unique ID: D012608
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Scrapie - Preferred
Concept UI M0019564
Scope note A fatal disease of the nervous system in sheep and goats, characterized by pruritus, debility, and locomotor incoordination. It is caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called PRIONS.
Preferred term Scrapie
Entry term(s) Rida



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