White blood cell-based detection of asymptomatic scrapie infection by ex vivo assays.
Prion transmission can occur by blood transfusion in human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and in experimental animal models, including sheep. Screening of blood and its derivatives for the presence of prions became therefore a major public health issue. As infectious titer in blood is reportedly...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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