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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a risk analysis.
Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2000
Liberski P P
Abstract excerpt
There is doubt that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) resulted from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) transmission from cattle to human. What is uncertain is the total number of vCJD cases (currently about 80). In this review I covered recent data on the vCJD and BSE epidemic, the mode of BSE spreading to humans and, finally, the data on the PRNP analogue--the doppel gene (PRND).
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