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Nature Medicine 7, 261 (2001)
doi:10.1038/85359
Scientists race to develop a blood test for vCJD
Laura Bonetta1
- Bethesda
As the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis continues to intensify in Europe, the United States has so far managed to keep cattle infected with the disease out of the country. However, the US authorities are concerned that the human form of BSE, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), might enter its shores through people who lived in Europe at the height of the BSE epidemic.
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