incubationperiodsLengthoftheCJDincubationperioddidnotcorrelatewiththegeneticmarkerstested,iethemurinemajorhistocompatibility(H-2)complex(whichhaspreviouslybeenreportedtobelinkedtoageneinfluencingCJDincubationperiodinmice),coatcolourorsexgenesInNZW/Sea×C57BL/6JF1hybridmicetheCJDincubationperiodsweresimilartothatofthe...
(2006) Kuru in the 21st century - an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation period. Lancet 367, 2068-2074.Collinge J, Whitfield J, McKintosh E, et al. Kuru in the 21st century : an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods. Lancet 2006 ;...
(Lasat), athymic (Nude), asplenic (Dh) or normal littermate (Hetero) mice with a BALB/c genetic background were injected either intracerebrally or intraperitoneally with a 1% or 10% homogenate of mouse brains infected with the Fukuoka 1 strain of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) agent....
CJDdura graftlong incubationOver 60% of all patients with dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (dCJD) have been diagnosed in Japan. The incubation period has ranged from 1 to 30聽years and the age at onset from 15 to 80聽years. Here, we report a 77-year-old male ...
Britain may still harbour CJD timebomb, warns professor BSE INFECTION: Three decades may be needed for incubation period of the disorder that has claimed 53 lives and could yet kill thousands more
THOUSANDS OF people could be incubating variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease (v-CJD) as a result of eating infected beef in the 1980s, say scientists, but it may take decades before the effects are clear. We may not even know what has happened until any epidemic is almost upon us....
(2006) Kuru in the 21st century - an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation period. Lancet 367, 2068-2074.Collinge J, Whitfield J, McKintosh E, Beck J, Mead S, Thomas DJ, et al. Kuru in the 21st century-an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation ...