Prions and Mad Cow Disease

Taking aim at the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies infectious agents, Richard I. Carp and Richard J. Kascsak prions, the protein hypothesis and scientific revolutions of virology, David Bolton a simulation model for evaluating thepotential for spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in animals to people, Joshua T. Cohen, Keith Duggar, George M. Gray, Silvia Kreindel, Hatim Abdelrahman, Tsegaye HabteMariam, David Oryang and Berhanu Tameru actions to prevent bovine spongiformencephalopathy from entering the United States, Linda A. Detwiler and Burt Pritchett overview of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in the United States, Sam D. Holland bioassays for prions, Andrew F. Hill, Emmanuel A. Asante and John Collinge cyclic amplification of scrapie prion protein - implications for diagnosis, Claudio Soto the enfer transmissible spongiform encephalopathies assay - chemiluminescent ELISA of prion proteins, Riona Sayers sensitive detection of prion proteins byimmunoassay (CEA/Bio-Rad test), Emmanuel E. Comoy, Jacques Grassi and Jean-Phillipe Deslys the diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies using differential extraction And DELFIA, Geoff Barnard and Man-Sun Sy in vivo diagnosis of priondiseases, Ruth Gabizon and Gideon M. Shaked diagnosis of prion diseases by multispectral techniques, Richard Rubenstein, Perry C. Gray, Jae-Il Kim and Gary C. Tisone detection of the prion protein in blood using a fluorescence immunoassay, Mary JoSchmerr and Andrew Alpert prion detection and application to the safety of biological products, Jeanette L. C. Miller, Christopher J. Stenland, Stephen R. Petteway, Jr and Douglas C. Lee.