Transmission Characteristics of Variably Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy

Transmission Characteristics of Variably Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy

Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), a recently identified and seemingly sporadic human prion disease, is distinct from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but shares features of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS). However, contrary to exclusively inherited GSS, no prion protein (P...

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Main Authors: Silvio Notari, Xiangzhu Xiao, Juan Carlos Espinosa, Yvonne Cohen, Liuting Qing, Patricia Aguilar-Calvo, Diane Kofskey, Ignazio Cali, Laura Cracco, Qingzhong Kong, Juan Maria Torres, Pierluigi Gambetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
transgenic mice
transmissibility
humans
VPSPr
prions and related diseases
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/12/14-0548_article

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