Bovine spongiform encephalopathy–a review from the perspective of food safety

S Kumagai, T Daikai, T Onodera - Food Safety, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that belongs
to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). Since the first case was identified in the …

Deciphering the BSE-type specific cell and tissue tropisms of atypical (H and L) and classical BSE

A Balkema-Buschmann, G Priemer, R Ulrich, R Strobelt… - Prion, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
After the discovery of two atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) forms in France
and Italy designated H-and L-BSE, the question arose whether these new forms differed …

Diagnostic utility of RT-QuIC for the diagnosis of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

LRR Davidson - 2019 - era.ed.ac.uk
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD) remains the commonest type of prion disease
with an incidence of approximately 1 per million and accounting for approximately 80% of …