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The relationship between new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Jan 1999
Knight R
Abstract excerpt
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been transmitted in the laboratory and also by iatrogenic accident. However, research has failed to find evidence that its most common form (sporadic CJD) is a natural infection and, in particular, that there is a causal link with scrapie. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) probably resulted from scrapie infection in cattle food. In the wake of the BSE epidemic, a novel...
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