Prions: Reassessment of the germ theory of disease

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 211, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 546-552

  Fry, Donald E ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; PRION;

AUTOPSY; BEEF CATTLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA; FELINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IATROGENIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SCRAPIE; SEIZURE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TRANSMISSIBLE MINK ENCEPHALOPATHY; VISUAL DISORDER; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRION; PRION DISEASES;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 77957238661     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.06.389     Document Type: Review

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