Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an abnormal infectious prion protein. Prions do not contain conventional DNA or RNA like viruses and bacteria. The disease produces progressive neurological degeneration and characteristic spongiform changes in nervous tissue.
BSE is caused by:
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