BSE and prions: Uncertainties about the agent

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5347, 1998, Pages 42-43

  Chesebro, Bruce ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION;

AMYLOID; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; GENE EXPRESSION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; VIRAL PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUSES;

BOVINAE; PARVOVIRUS;

EID: 0032472239     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5347.42     Document Type: Review

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