Attenuated Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease agents can hide more virulent infections

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 163-166

  Manuelidis, Laura ^a   Yun Lu, Zhi ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent suppression; Prion protein chimeras; Sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease; Vaccination; Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERINFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MICE; PRIONS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034602565     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01514-7     Document Type: Article

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