Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies /

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 dise...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Harris, David A.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Series:	Current topics in microbiology and immunology ; 284.
Subjects:	Medicine. Neurosciences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book