Assessing prion infectivity of human urine in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-28

  Notari, Silvio ^a   Qing, Liuting ^a   Pocchiari, Maurizio ^b   Dagdanova, Ayuna ^a   Hatcher, Kristin ^a   Dogterom, Arend ^c   Groisman, Jose F ^d   Lumholtz, Ib Bo ^e   Puopolo, Maria ^b   Lasmezas, Corinne ^f   Chen, Shu G ^a   Kong, Qingzhong ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Ferring Pharmaceuticals   (Denmark)

^d Instituto Massone   (Argentina)

^e BL Consult ApS   (Denmark)

^f SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOCULATION; KIDNEY CONCENTRATING CAPACITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPORADIC CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863020224     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.110589     Document Type: Article

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