Transmission and detection of prions in feces

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Safar, Jiri G ^a   Lessard, Pierre ^a   Tamgüney, Gültekin ^a   Freyman, Yevgeniy ^a   Deering, Camille ^a   Letessier, Frederic ^a   DeArmond, Stephen J ^a,b   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOASSAY; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCRAPIE; SYRIAN HAMSTER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CRICETINAE; FECES; FEMALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 46349102934     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588193     Document Type: Article

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