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Prions and prion diseases new developments /

Subjects: “…Prion diseases.…”
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Advancing prion science guidance for the national prion research program /

Table of Contents: “…Executive summary -- Prion diseases: an overview -- Diagnostics for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Testing blood for evidence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the United States -- Assessment of strategies to prevent and treat transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Infrastructure for research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Risks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies to the U.S. military.…”
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Prions in humans and animals

Subjects: “…Prion diseases.…”
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Advancing prion science guidance for the National Prion Research Program, interim report /

Subjects: “…Prion diseases Research United States.…”
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Prion biology and diseases

Subjects: “…Prions.…”
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How the cows turned mad by Schwartz, Maxime, 1940-

Subjects: “…Prion diseases History.…”
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Fatal flaws how a misfolded protein baffled scientists and changed the way we look at the brain / by Ingram, Jay

Subjects: “…Prions.…”
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How the cows turned mad unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / by Schwartz, Maxime, 1940-

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Food safety contaminants and toxins /

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Clinical neuropathology text and color atlas / by Haberland, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Basics of neuropathology -- Cerebral hypoxia -- Cerebrovascular diseases -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Infectious diseases -- Prion diseases -- Demyelinating diseases -- Hereditary neurometabolic diseases -- Acquired neurometabolic diseases -- Tumors of the central nervous system -- Traumatic injuries of the central nervous system -- Congenital malformations of the central nervous system -- Fetal and perinatal cerebral pathology.…”
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The Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases by Rifkind, David

Table of Contents: “…Serotherapy -- Antimicrobial defenses -- MHC restriction -- Prontosil and the sulfonamides -- Penicillin -- Streptomycin -- Chemotherapeutic agents -- Tuberculosis -- Typhus -- Syphilis therapy -- Tobacco mosaic virus -- Yellow fever -- Poliomyelitis virus -- Hepatitis B virus -- Bacteriophage -- Bacteriophage lysogeny -- Rous sarcoma virus -- Polyoma virus -- Reverse transcriptase -- Viral oncogenes -- Kuru -- Prions -- Malaria -- Cancer parasite -- DDT.…”
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Metal-based neurodegeneration : from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies / by Crichton, Robert R.

Table of Contents: “…Brain function, physiology, and the blood-brain barrier -- Role of metal ions in brain function, metal transport, storage, and homeostasis -- Immune system and neuroinflammation -- Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases -- Aging and mild cognitive impairment, MCI -- Parkinson's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- Huntington's disease and polyglutamine expansion neurodegenerative diseases -- Friedreich's ataxia and diseases associated with expansion of non-coding triplets -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other prion diseases -- Amyotropic lateral sclerosis -- Alcoholic brain damage -- Other neurological diseases -- Therapeutic strategies to combat the onset and progression of neurological diseases.…”
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Biological safety principles and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Microbial flora of humans and microbial virulence factors -- Indigenous and pathogenic agents of research animals -- Laboratory, growth chamber, and greenhouse microbial safety: plant pathogens and plant-associated microorganisms of significance to human health -- Epidemiology of laboratory-associated infections -- Risk assessment of biological hazards -- Bacterial pathogens -- Protozoa and helminths -- Mycotic agents of human disease -- Viral agents of human disease: biosafety concerns -- Biosafety for microorganisms transmitted primarily by the airborne route -- Cell lines: applications and biosafety -- Allergens of animal and biological systems -- Biological toxins: safety and science -- Design of biomedical laboratory facilities -- Primary barriers and equipment-associated hazards -- Priamry barriers: biological safety cabinets, fume hoods, and glove boxes -- Personal respiratory protection -- Standard (Universal) precautions for handling human specimens -- Prudent biosafety practices -- Decontamination and disinfection -- Packing and shipping biological materials -- Biological safety program management -- Biosafety compliance: a global perspective -- Occupational medicine in a biomedical research setting -- Measuring biosafety program effectiveness -- Biosafety of prion diseases -- Safety considerations in the BSL-4 maximum-containment laboratory -- Biosafety and viral gene transfer vectors -- Biosafety in the teaching laboratory -- Biosafety in the pharmaceutical industry -- Large-scale production of microorganisms -- Special considerations for agriculture pathogen biosafety -- Biosafety and biosecurity: regulatory impact.…”
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The differential diagnosis of chorea /

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Infectious diseases of wild mammals and birds in Europe

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The behavioral neurology of dementia

Table of Contents: “….] -- CADASIL : a genetic model of arteriolar degeneration, white matter injury, and dementia in later life / Stephen Salloway ... [et al.] -- Prion disorders and other rapidly progressive dementias / Michael D. …”
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A concise manual of pathogenic microbiology by Mishra, Saroj (Saroj K.)

Table of Contents: “…Prions are added at the end.…”
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Merritt's neurology.

Table of Contents: “…Signs and symptoms in neurologic diagnosis: approach to the patient -- Delirium and confusion -- Memory loss, behavioral changes and dementia -- Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia -- Syncope, seizures and their mimics -- Coma -- Headache -- Diagnosis of pain and paresthesias -- Dizziness, vertigo, and hearing loss -- Impaired vision -- Involuntary movements -- Syndromes caused by weak muscles -- Gait disorders -- CT and MRI -- Electroencephalography and evoked potentials -- Electromyography, nerve conduction studies, and and magnetic stimulation -- Autonomic testing -- Neurovascular imaging -- Endovascular neuroradiology -- Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid examination -- Muscle and nerve biopsy -- Neuropsychological evaluation -- DNA diagnosis -- Bacterial infections -- Focal infections -- Viral infections and postviral syndromes -- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) -- Fungal infections -- Neurosarcoidosis -- Neurosyphilis -- Leptospirosis -- Lyme disease -- Parasitic infections -- Bacterial toxins -- Prion diseases -- Whipple disease -- Pathogenesis, classification, and epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease -- Examination of the patient with cerebrovascular disease -- Transient ischemic attack -- Cerebral infarction -- Intracerebral hemorrhage -- Genetics of stroke -- Other cerebrovascular syndromes -- Differential diagnosis of stroke -- Stroke in children -- Treatment and prevention of stroke -- Subarachnoid hemorrhage -- Cerebral venous and sinus thrombosis -- Vascular disease of the spinal cord -- Vasculitis -- Susac syndrome -- Vascular tumors and malformations -- Hydrocephalus -- Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) -- Brain edema and disorders of intracranial pressure -- Superficial siderosis and intracerebral hypotension -- Hyperosmolar syndromes -- General considerations -- Tumors of the skull and cranial nerves -- Tumors of the meninges -- Gliomas -- Lymphomas -- Pineal region tumors -- Tumors of the pituitary gland -- Congenital and childhood tumors -- Metastatic tumors -- Spinal tumors -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Complications of cancer chemotherapy --…”
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Microbes concepts and applications / by Bisen, Prakash S.

Table of Contents: “…Molecular Diagnostic and Medical Microbiology 3.1 Prologue 3.2 Microbial biology 3.3 Infection and immunity 3.4 Bacterial pathogens and associated diseases 3.5 Viral pathogen and associated diseases 3.6 Prions 3.7 Parasitic infections 3.8 Fungal pathogen 3.9 Microbial diagnostics 3.10 Future challenges: Promises of pharmacogenomics and molecular testing Chapter 4. …”
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