NR ADKX
AU Diringer,H.
TI Proposed link between transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of man and animals
QU Lancet 1995 Nov 4; 346(8984): 1208-10
KI Lancet. 1996 Jan 6;347(8993):65-6. PMID: 8531583
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB A link between scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is likely to exist. Based on old observations on scrapie, new experiments on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and modern reviews on CJD, my proposal fits general rules of virus transmission.
ZR 20
MH Animal; Cattle; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/genetics/*transmission; Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform/genetics/*transmission; Human; Prion Diseases/classification/transmission; Scrapie/genetics/*transmission; Sheep; Species Specificity
AD Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany.
SP englisch
PO England
OR Prion-Krankheiten D