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1: Lancet. 1995 Nov 4;346(8984):1208-10.Links
Comment in:
Lancet. 1996 Jan 6;347(8993):65-6.

Proposed link between transmissible spongiform encephalopathies of man and animals.

Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany.

A link between scrapie and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is likely to exist. Based on old observations on scrapie, new experiments on bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and modern reviews on CJD, my proposal fits general rules of virus transmission.

PMID: 7475665 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]