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Adaptation and selection of prion protein strain conformations following interspecies transmission of transmissible mink encephalopathy.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 2000
Bartz J C, Bessen R A, McKenzie D, Marsh R F, Aiken J M
Abstract excerpt
Interspecies transmission of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, can result in the adaptation and selection of TSE strains with an expanded host range and increased virulence such as in the case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To investigate TSE strain adaptation, we serially passaged a biological clone of transmissible mink...
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