[Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. History, epidemiology, etiological, hyphotheses].

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The history of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is shortly reviewed beginning with the Westminster parliament act in the year 1755 up to the description in 1996 of the variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, transmitted from cattle to man by alimentary route. The epidemiological patterns of encephalopathies of the various animal species and of the four encephalopathies up to date reported in man are...

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