The late 1970s: A lull in the action on kuru

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1510, 2008, Pages 3668-3671

  Tarr, Phillip I ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NUTRITION; PRION DISEASE; RNA;

EID: 53749085228     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.4033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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