Kuru: Its ramifications after fifty years

Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru

D. Carleton Gajdusek · Science · 1977 · 891 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +9

Experimental Transmission of a Kuru-like Syndrome to Chimpanzees

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

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +12

Degenerative Disease of the Central Nervous System in New Guinea

D. Carleton Gajdusek, Vincent Zigas · New England Journal of Medicine · 1957 · 569 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Pediatrics +11

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE VIRUS ISOLATIONS FROM THE GERSTMANN-STRÄUSSLER SYNDROME

Colin L. Masters, D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs · Brain · 1981 · 526 citations

Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Neurology +16

SCRAPIE AND KURU

W. J. Hadlow · The Lancet · 1959 · 402 citations