Assertion: kuru | /r/CapableOf | arise through horizontal infection
Facets:
value: in the brains of affected individuals
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: However, many later studies clearly showed that kuru, scrapie, and other encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD; 123400) are not caused by 'slow virus' infection but arise through horizontal infection and accumulation of aberrant prion protein (176640) in the brains of affected individuals (e.g., Kingsbury, 1990).