{"title":"[Prion diseases].","authors":"R. Doria, F. Menichetti","doi":"10.1201/9781315382715-24","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) constitute a group of hereditary or acquired neurodegenerative disorders. The Authors evaluate the etiopathogenetic background, the clinical features and the current concerns with special attention to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and new variant Creutzfeldt Jacob disease.","PeriodicalId":17977,"journal":{"name":"Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive","volume":"96 1","pages":"72-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315382715-24","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) constitute a group of hereditary or acquired neurodegenerative disorders. The Authors evaluate the etiopathogenetic background, the clinical features and the current concerns with special attention to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and new variant Creutzfeldt Jacob disease.