Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Spongiform Encephalopathy): Transmission to the Chimpanzee

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Clarence J. Gibbs · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

D. Carleton Gajdusek · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

David M. Asher · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Michael P. Alpers · National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Elizabeth M. Beck · Maudsley Hospital

P. M. Daniel · Maudsley Hospital

Abstract

Biopsy material taken from the brain of a patient with CreutzfeldtJakob disease with status spongiosus induced a similar fatal encephalopathy in a chimpanzee 13 months after inoculation.

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Published in: Science

Volume 161, Issue 3839, pp. 388-389

DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3839.388

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