Open AccessReflections on kuru
Author(s) -
Stanley B. Prusiner
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.2008.4024
Subject(s) - kuru , biology , medicine , scrapie , disease , prion protein , pathology
My association with kuru came long after the disease had dwindled to fewer than 25 patients annually. By the time I became interested in the disease, cannibalism had ceased (Alpers [1968][1], [1970][2]), and the suggestion had been made that kuru was a transmissible disorder based on its
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