Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: Historical and clinical aspects of prion protein disorders

Neurodiagnostic Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 182-189

  Krebs Jr , Phillip P ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic; Creutzfeldt Jakob; iatrogenic; prion; somatic; spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMANTADINE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INTERFERON; VIDARABINE;

ALEUTIAN MINK DISEASE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HISTORY; HUMAN; KURU; NONHUMAN; PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRION; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SHEEP DISEASE; SLOW VIRUS DISEASE; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; SYNDROME DELINEATION; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 10344228723     PISSN: 21646821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1086508x.1996.11080552     Document Type: Review

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