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SUBMITTER: Morales R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2606671 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morales Rodrigo R Buytaert-Hoefen Kimberley A KA Gonzalez-Romero Dennisse D Castilla Joaquin J Hansen Eric T ET Hlavinka Dennis D Goodrich Raymond P RP Soto Claudio C
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20081011 2
The link between a new variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and the consumption of prion contaminated cattle meat as well as recent findings showing that vCJD can be transmitted by blood transfusion have raised public health concerns. Currently, a reliable test to identify prions in blood samples is not available. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possibility to remove scrapie prion protein (PrP(Sc)) and infectivity from red blood cell (RBC) suspensions by a simple washin ...[more]