NR AMCT
AU Vorob'ev,A.A.; Makarov,V.V.
TI [Prion infections: most important medical and veterinary aspects]
OT Prionnye infektsii: vazhneishie meditsinskie i veterenarnye aspekty.
QU Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 1997(6): 3-11
PT journal article; review; review, tutorial
AB The paper reviews the most important and topical information on prionic diseases in the medical and veterinary context. It gives data on bovine sponge-like encephalopathy and other new prionic infections in animals, as well as on a new type of the Greutzfeldt-jakob disease. The common pathology, pathogenesis, and transmission of the infections of this group, a prionic concept of their etiology, constituents of present-day epidemiological survey are generalized. Some most tasks of medical and veterinary importance, which are most essential to Russian science, are worded in the conclusion.
ZR 15
MH Animal; Animal Diseases/epidemiology/etiology/transmission; Cattle; Communicable Disease Control; Disease Outbreaks; Disease Transmission, Horizontal; English Abstract; Human; *Prion Diseases/epidemiology/etiology/veterinary; Russia/epidemiology
AD Moscow Medical Academy of IM Sechenov.
SP russisch
PO Russland