Diagnostics for TSE agents

Developments in Biologicals

Volumn 123, Issue , 2006, Pages 313-323

  Raeber, A J ^a   Oesch, B ^a  

^a Prionics AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOGENICITY; PRION; PRION DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EUROPE; HUMANS; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPC PROTEINS;

EID: 33644621538     PISSN: 14246074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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