No Adaptation of the Prion Strain in a Heterozygous Case of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

ABSTRACT: We investigated a clinical case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in a person heterozygous for methionine/valine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene and identified the same strain properties in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in methionine homozygous persons and in bovine spongiform encephalopathy. These results indicate no adaptation of the agent in a different genetic background.

SUBMITTER: Boyle A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7258451 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature