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

Clarence J. Gibbs, D. Carleton Gajdusek, David M. Asher, Michael P. Alpers, Elizabeth M. Beck, P. M. Daniel, W.B. Matthews

Science · 1968 · 778 citations · 8 references

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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.

References

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Experimental Transmission of a Kuru-like Syndrome to Chimpanzees

D. C. Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Michael P. Alpers · Nature · 1966 · 826 citations

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Pathology of Kuru.

I. Klatzo, D. Carleton Gajdusek, Vincent Zigas · PubMed · 2000 · 282 citations

SUBACUTE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY—A SUBACUTE FORM OF ENCEPHALOPATHY ATTRIBUTABLE TO VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION (SPONGIFORM CEREBRAL ATROPHY)

S. Nevin, W. H. McMenemey, Stephen W. Behrman et al. · Brain · 1960 · 189 citations

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An ataxic form of subacute presenile polioencephalopathy (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)

Betty Brownell, D. R. Oppenheimer · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry · 1965 · 148 citations · Full text

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Transmission and passage of experimenal "kuru" to chimpanzees.

D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Michael P. Alpers · PubMed · 1967 · 147 citations

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