Oral transmissibility of prion disease is enhanced by binding to soil particles

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 0874-0881

  Johnson, Christopher J ^a,b   Pedersen, Joel A ^a   Chappell, Rick J ^c   McKenzie, Debbie ^b   Aiken, Judd M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; MINERALOGY; NONHUMAN; PENETRANCE; PRION DISEASE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROTEIN BINDING; SOIL TEXTURE; TITRIMETRY; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 34547619656     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0030093     Document Type: Article

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