Cargando…
The origin of the prion agent of kuru: molecular and biological strain typing
Kuru is an acquired human prion disease that primarily affected the Fore linguistic group of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The central clinical feature of kuru is progressive cerebellar ataxia and, in sharp contrast to most cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), dementia is...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
The Royal Society
2008
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581656/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0069 |