Nature Medicine
2, 1303 - 1304 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm1296-1303
Similar protein signatures for BSE and vCJDSuzette A. PriolaLaboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana 59840, USA Emerging evidence supports a connection between "new variant" Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease in humans and "mad cow" disease but is it proof? REFERENCES
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