Features

 prion diseases
 transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

References

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 Soto C, Saborio GP. Prions: disease propagation and disease therapy by conformational transmission. Trends Mol Med. 2001 Mar;7(3):109-14. PMID: #11286781#

 Aguzzi A, Montrasio F, Kaeser PS. Prions: health scare and biological challenge. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2001 Feb;2(2):118-26. PMID: #11252953#

 Collinge J. Human prion diseases and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Hum Mol Genet. 1997;6(10):1699-705. PMID: #9300662#