Management and prevention of human prion diseases.

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Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurologic disorders that affect humans and animals and for which there is no available therapy. The basic pathogenic mechanism is linked to posttranslational changes of the host cellular prion protein (PrP(c)) into a pathologic conformer (PrP(TSE)) that has a strong tendency to aggregate and form amyloid fibrils. In humans, the most common form of the disease is sporadic...

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