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. 1968 Jul 26;161(3839):388-9.
doi: 10.1126/science.161.3839.388.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (spongiform encephalopathy): transmission to the chimpanzee

C J Gibbs Jr, D C Gajdusek, D M Asher, M P Alpers, E Beck, P M Daniel, W B Matthews

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (spongiform encephalopathy): transmission to the chimpanzee

C J Gibbs Jr et al. Science. .

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.

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