Enzymatic detergent treatment protocol that reduces protease-resistant prion protein load and infectivity from surgical-steel monofilaments contaminated with a human-derived prion strain

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2905-2914

  Lawson, Victoria A ^a   Stewart, James D ^a   Masters, Colin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENERAL SURGERY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RODENT; STANDARD; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT;

ANIMALS; DETERGENTS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MICE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STEEL; STERILIZATION;

RODENTIA;

EID: 35048854978     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82961-0     Document Type: Article

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