[A study of the agent of scrapie adapted to hamsters].

The scraepie agent (compton strain) proved to be transmitted frrom mice to hamsters; incubation period of the disease was 5 to 6 months. The scraepie agent was passaged ten times with brain tissue suspension. The scraepie agent was revealed in the spinal cord and spleen, but none was found in the liver, kidneys, suprarenal glands and the lungs of infected animals during the last stage of the disease.