Public health risks from subclinical variant CJD
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Public health risks from subclinical variant CJD
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a zoonotic prion disease thought to have been transmitted to humans through the consumption of food products contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the 1980s and/or early 1990s. As with all prion disorders, it is a fatal neurodegenerative disease arising from conversion of the normal cellular form of the prion protein PrP, encoded...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Pathogens
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1553-7374
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006642