A clinical study of kuru patients with long incubation periods at the end of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea

Kuru is so far the principal human epidemic prion disease. While its incidence has steadily declined since the cessation of its route of transmission, endocannibalism, in Papua New Guinea in the 1950s, the arrival of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), also thought to be transmitted by dietary...

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Autores principales: Collinge, John, Whitfield, Jerome, McKintosh, Edward, Frosh, Adam, Mead, Simon, Hill, Andrew F., Brandner, Sebastian, Thomas, Dafydd, Alpers, Michael P.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0068

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