Are humans getting 'mad-cow disease' from eating beef, or something else?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 699-701

  Concepcion, G P ^a   Padlan, E A ^a,b  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; DIGESTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EATING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SCRAPIE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037402363     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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