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Human prion diseases.
The Medical clinics of North America - 1 May 2002
Sy Man-Sun, Gambetti Pierluigi, Wong Boon-Seng
Abstract excerpt
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) is a group of rare, sub-acute, fatal neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals. TSE includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, fatal familial insomnia, and Kuru (a disease confined to the Fore linguistic group, a tribe in Papua-New Guinea). From the onset, it was recognized that some of these spongiform diseases occur in...
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