Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause scrapie.

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Summary

A new term "prion" is proposed to denote a small proteinaceous infectious particle which is resistant to inactivation by most procedures that modify nucleic acids.

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1982-04-09
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Keywords

Scrapie, Infectious agent, Infectivity, Nucleic acid, Virology

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