The origin of the prion agent of kuru: molecular and biological strain typing
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- 27 November 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 363 (1510), 3747-3753
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0069
Abstract
Kuru is an acquired human prion disease that primarily affected the Fore linguistic group of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The central clinical feature of kuru is progressive cerebella...Keywords
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