Infection of tissues outside the nervous system occurs in a number of prion diseases, but sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans has not been considered one of them. A clinical study of Swiss patients with sporadic disease reconsiders this assumption, and a second study examines the spread of infection between follicular dendritic cells and nerves.
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REFERENCE Prion Diseases Nature Encyclopaedia of Life Sciences
