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Nature Medicine  3, 491 - 492 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0597-491

Human TSE disease — viral or protein only?

Bruce Chesebro

Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA

Analyses of prion protein deposits in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contribute to the controversy over the nature of the transmissible agent (pages 521−525).

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