Converse of object

• eradicate: The UK National Scrapie Plan aims to eradicate scrapie from sheep flocks via the selective breeding of disease-resistant animals.

• eliminate: We would contend that this does not in any way diminish the need to continue to use the technology to eliminate scrapie.

• develop: They destroyed the herds and imported clean stock, put them back on the same ground and after a few years they developed scrapie.

• cause: Benzene poisoning unlikely to be a factor in causing scrapie.

Adjective modifier

• atypical: Common scrapie has never posed a risk to human health and the newer atypical scrapie has never been shown to transfer to humans.

• bovine: He knew that the CVO was opposed to describing the disease as ' bovine scrapie ' .

• natural: At the time, it was known that natural scrapie in goats was very rare.

Modifies a noun

• genotyping: Since November 2001 LGC has been providing scrapie genotyping under contract to Defra as part of the UK's National Scrapie Plan.

• infectivity: I don't know that bile has ever been looked at for scrapie infectivity.

• genotype: Group 1 scrapie genotype rams attracted the most money.

• prion: For example scientists so far have failed to find a scrapie prion nucleic acid.

• susceptibility: Agreement builds on success of scrapie susceptibility testing on MassARRAY platform.

• eradication: We also reviewed the current TSE situation, including the testing regimes and progress in establishing scrapie eradication plans.

Noun used with modifier

• sheep: A similar value has been reported for sheep scrapie in mice.

• disease: It provides information on the transmissible degenerative disease scrapie in sheep.

Preposition: in

• sheep: The incidence of scrapie in sheep is there to be tackled now.

• cattle: It was likely that scrapie in cattle would prove similarly innocuous.

Preposition: of

• sheep: TSE diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( CJD ) of humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy of cattle and scrapie of sheep.

Preposition: from

• sheep: The UK National Scrapie Plan aims to eradicate scrapie from sheep flocks via the selective breeding of disease-resistant animals.

• flock: The NSP aim is to reduce and eventually eliminate scrapie from the national flock.