Lingering doubts about spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 226, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 640-652

  Narang, Harash K ^a  

^a Ken Bell International   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Nemavirus; Protease resistant protein (PrP); Scrapie; Scrapie associated fibril; Spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL DISEASE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; SCRAPIE; SHORT SURVEY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

EID: 0034930378     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020222600710     Document Type: Short Survey

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