Age and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies [2]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1164-1165

  Heisey, Dennis M ^a,c   Joly, Damien O ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AGE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEER; DENDRITIC CELL; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LETTER; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; SCRAPIE; SENESCENCE; SHEEP; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 2542608460     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1006.031130     Document Type: Letter

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