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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...

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Autores principales: Wadsworth, Jonathan D.F., Joiner, Susan, Linehan, Jacqueline M., Asante, Emmanuel A., Brandner, Sebastian, Collinge, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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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