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The genetics of susceptibility to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Public health genomics - 1 Jan 2013
Saba R, Booth S A
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and, subsequently, its transmission to humans resulting in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the UK has proved to be one of the major public health scares of the century. The oral route of infection, the long incubation period, and the incredible resistance of the transmissible infectious agent to various forms of decontamination poses...
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