Efficient transmission and characterization of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease strains in bank voles

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 0112-0120

  Nonno, Romolo ^a   Di Bari, Michele A ^a   Cardone, Franco ^a   Vaccari, Gabriele ^a   Fazzi, Paola ^a   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^b   Cartoni, Claudia ^a   Ingrosso, Loredana ^a   Boyle, Aileen ^c   Galeno, Roberta ^a   Sbriccoli, Marco ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b   Bruce, Moira ^c   Pocchiari, Maurizio ^a   Agrimi, Umberto ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE ISOLATION; HAMSTER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; RODENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PRPSC PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CRICETINAE; MURIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; OVIS ARIES; RODENTIA;

EID: 33645778583     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020012     Document Type: Article

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