Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 569-571

  Epstein, Leon G ^a   Brown, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INOCULATION; KURU; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; REVIEW; SCRAPIE;

EID: 0030896838     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.3.569     Document Type: Review

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