Subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies. Scrapie, Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a review

MeSH terms

• Animals
• Brain / pathology
• Central Nervous System Diseases*
• Cerebral Cortex / pathology
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / etiology
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / pathology
• Humans
• Kuru* / etiology
• Kuru* / microbiology
• Kuru* / pathology
• Microscopy, Electron
• Prions / isolation & purification
• Scrapie* / etiology
• Scrapie* / genetics
• Scrapie* / pathology
• Sheep
• Time Factors