Scrapie could breach the species barrier The pathogens responsible - TopicsExpress



          

Scrapie could breach the species barrier The pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the human prion protein from a healthy state to a pathological state, researchers have discovered for the first time. In mice models reproducing the human species barrier, this prion induces a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. These primary results stress the necessity to reassess the transmission of this disease to humans.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:01:37 +0000

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