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Prion‐related diseases and anaesthesia [PDF]
Anaesthesia, 2001 P R, Lowe, T, Engelhardt
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.We examined changes in perceived risks associated with chronic wasting disease (CWD) and perceived trust in wildlife agencies over time across 10 studies in eight states. Results indicated that perceived risks to both deer and humans declined the longer the disease had been in a state. Results also indicated that agency trust evaluations were positive,
Jerry J. Vaske, Craig A. Miller
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Endogenous Viral Etiology of Prion Diseases
, 2009 Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a group of incurable neurodegenerative disorders, including Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, “mad cow” disease in cattle, and scrapie in sheep. This paper
Claudiu I. Bandea
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, 2015 Purpose of reviewThis article presents an update on the clinical aspects of human prion disease, including the wide spectrum of their presentations.Recent findingsPrion diseases, a group of disorders caused by abnormally shaped proteins called prions ...
Geschwind, Michael D
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Hexameric Aggregation Nucleation Core Sequences and Diversity of Pathogenic Tau Strains
, 2022 Tau aggregation associates with multiple neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and rare tauopathies such as Pick’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and corticobasal degeneration.
Xu, Bin +7 more
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Chronic Wasting Disease management responses in North America: A public policy analysis
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.In this study we use the Multiple Streams Framework from public policy theory to assess the responses of wildlife management agencies in states and provinces with CWD‐positive cases in the United States and Canada to alleviate public concerns and manage the spread of this disease.
Kelly H. Dunning +12 more
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, 2012 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can be iatrogenically transmitted during transplants, grafts and transfusions from CJD infected donors and also contaminated surgical instruments.
Secker, Thomas
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Infection control in the brain and the eye
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract The Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising the brain and the eye, is considered to have a ‘privileged’ mechanism for dealing with immunological challenge (immune privilege, IP). CNS IP has been revealed through experiments using foreign protein antigens and cell and tissue alloantigens (grafts), but evidence for a role for IP in modulating ...
John V. Forrester +2 more
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, 2011 Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), also known as prion diseases, are fatal neurodegenerative disorders present both in human and animals with different aetiology as they can occur genetically, spontaneously or by infection (Prusiner 1998 ...
Marzo, Ludovica
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Chronic Wasting Disease and Potential Transmission to Humans
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of deer and elk is endemic in a tri-corner area of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and new foci of CWD have been detected in other parts of the United States.
Ermias D. Belay +5 more
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