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

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

doi:10.1126/science.161.3839.388

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

Published in Science • Jul 26, 1968

Authors:

Clarence J. Gibbs

D. Carleton Gajdusek

David M. Asher

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.

Subject

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Virology

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