Detection of prions in blood from patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 370, 2016, Pages

  Concha Marambio, Luis ^a,b   Pritzkow, Sandra ^a   Moda, Fabio ^a,c   Tagliavini, Fabrizio ^c   Ironside, James W ^d   Schulz, Paul E ^a   Soto, Claudio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Chile)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; WESTERN BLOTTING; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ITALY; PRION; PROCEDURES; UNITED KINGDOM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; ITALY; PRIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85006977584     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf6188     Document Type: Article

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