Spiroplasma as a candidate agent for the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Spiroplasma as a candidate agent for the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
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螺原体作为传染性海绵状脑病的候选药物。
DOI:
10.1097/01.jnen.0000183553.01458.87
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Bastian,FrankO
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作者:
Bastian,FrankO
The recovery of a novelSpiroplasma sp. from brain tissues from sheep with scrapie, cervids with chronic wasting disease, and from patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through passage through embryonated eggs has raised the issue of the role of Spiroplasma in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). In this review, we have inserted into an epidemiologic infection model evidence accumulated over the past 30 years showing involvement of Spiroplasma infection in TSE. These data support our hypothesis that aSpiroplasma sp. is the causal agent of TSE, although Koch's postulates must be fulfilled to definitively answer that question.