Prion infection dynamics
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Martin A. Nowak; David C. Krakauer; Aron Klug; Robert M. May
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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Propagation of a modified form of the cellular prion protein is thought to be the primary cause of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which include kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), scrapie, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). These highly unusual neurological maladies seem