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Broadening spectrum of bovine spongiform encephalopathies.
Acta microbiologica et immunologica Hungarica - 1 Mar 2009
Füzi M, Horváth P
Abstract excerpt
Until recently the etiology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was considered uniform. The infectious agent was thought to be a single strain of prion (posttranslationally altered form of normal prion protein: PrPSc) retaining its biochemical and biological characteristics during interspecies transmission. However, alternate PrPSc signatures through large-scale screening have recently been detected. In...
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