The kuru infectious agent is a unique geographic isolate distinct from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and scrapie agents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13529-13534

  Manuelidis, Laura ^a   Chakrabarty, Trisha ^a   Miyazawa, Kohtaro ^a   Nduom, Nana Aba ^a   Emmerling, Kaitlin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Prion protein receptor; Sporadic CJD; Tissue culture infection; Viral adaptation

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; VIRUS RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE AGENT; GROOMING; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION PREVENTION; KURU; KYPHOSIS; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SCRAPIE AGENT; SCRATCHING; UNSTEADINESS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KURU; MICE; NEURONS; PRIONS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

BOVINAE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY PRION; KURU PRION; MURINAE; MUS; OVIS ARIES; PRIMATES;

EID: 69449087745     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905825106     Document Type: Article

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