ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2008
Review. Lessons of kuru research: background to recent studies with some personal reflections.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Interventions to reduce the risk of surgically transmitted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a cost-effective modelling review.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2020Pooled it
- The Causal Relationship between Eating Animals and Viral Epidemics.Microbial physiology · 2020Review
- Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease.Viruses · 2019Review
- Cultural factors that affected the spatial and temporal epidemiology of kuru.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Kuru: a journey back in time from papua new Guinea to the neanderthals' extinction.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2013Review
- Kuru: genes, cannibals and neuropathology.Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2012Review
- HECTD2 is associated with susceptibility to mouse and human prion disease.PLoS genetics · 2009Article
- Introduction.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008Article
- Reminiscences and reflections on kuru, personal and scientific.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2008Article
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Abstract
The widespread exposure of the UK population to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions, and the potential consequences for public health, led to a renewed interest in kuru, the principal example of epidemic human prion disease. Kuru research in Papua New Guinea was expanded to study the range of incubation periods possible in human prion infection, to investigate maternal and other possible natural routes of transmission, to characterize genetic susceptibility and resistance factors and to gain insights into the peripheral pathogenesis of orally acquired prion disease in humans. Although now essentially over, the kuru epidemic continues to provide important lessons.
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