Advancing prion science
Subtitle: guidance for the national prion research program
By: Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science ; Rick Erdtmann and Laura B. Sivitz, editors
Contributors: Erdtmann, Rick; Sivitz, Laura
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Prion diseases; Prion diseases -- Government policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Prion diseases: an overview; title: Diagnostics for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; title: Testing blood for evidence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the United States; title: Assessment of strategies to prevent and treat transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; title: Infrastructure for research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; title: Risks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies to the U.S. military