Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies
J. R. Silveira, B. Caughey, G. S. Baron (auth.), Professor David A. Harris MD, PhD (eds.)Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has become the most publicly recognizable example of a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles called prions. Transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy to humans in the form of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) has intensified the urgency of understanding and controlling these unusual disorders. The contributors to this volume, all internationally recognized experts in their fields, provide an introduction to prion biology, followed by reviews of the latest information on BSE, vCJD, and chronic wasting disease, an animal prion disease that has recently emerged in North America.
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Год:
2004
Издание:
1
Издательство:
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Язык:
english
Страницы:
222
ISBN 10:
3662084414
ISBN 13:
9783662084410
Серия:
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 284
Файл:
PDF, 5.14 MB
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,
english, 2004
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