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Kuru and its contribution to medicine

The solution of kuru led us to the solution of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and to the elucidation, in humans and other species, of previously unknown mechanisms of infection. These require very close three-dimensional matching, which determines infectious nucleant or prion activity. Evidence for nucle...

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Autor principal: Gajdusek, D. Carleton
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2575417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0070