Open AccessFamily and population studies by the Adelaide Kuru Team, 1957–1965
Author(s) -
J. H. Bennett
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2008.4006
Subject(s) - kuru , population , family studies , geography , genealogy , biology , sociology , demography , medicine , history , disease , prion protein , pathology , scrapie
A genealogical survey of some members of the Fore population living near Okapa was carried out by Prof. H. N. Robson and Dr F. A. Rhodes in December 1957. This was shortly after the publication of the first paper on kuru in which [Zigas & Gajdusek (1957)][1] reported, inter alia , the unusual sex
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