Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and early onset variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 695-700

  Weissmann, Charles ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; BONE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0030856847     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(97)80091-8     Document Type: Article

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