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Cover image for book Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies

Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies

By:David A. Harris
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9783540201076
eText ISBN:9783662084410
Edition:1
Copyright:2004
Format:Reflowable

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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. 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.