Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods
Author/Authors :
John Collinge، نويسنده , , Jerome Whitfield، نويسنده , , Edward McKintosh، نويسنده , , John Beck، نويسنده , , Simon Mead، نويسنده , , Dafydd J Thomas، نويسنده , , Michael P Alpers، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
Pages :
7
From page :
2068
To page :
2074
Abstract :
Background
Kuru provides the principal experience of epidemic human prion disease. Its incidence has steadily fallen after the abrupt cessation of its route of transmission (endocannibalism) in Papua New Guinea in the 1950s. The onset of variant Creutzfel
