Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: an unfolding epidemic of misfolded proteins.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is an emerging infectious disease believed to be the human manifestation of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Variant CJD belongs to a family of human and animal diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). The pathogenesis of TSE is...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2002
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