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Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies

By PhD (eds.) , J. R. Silveira , B. Caughey , G. S. Baron (auth.) , Professor David A. Harris MD

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2004
ISBN
978-3-642-05756-4, 978-3-662-08441-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-08441-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5384533 bytes)
Series
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 284
Edition
1
Pages
222\223
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Neurosciences

Description

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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