Advancing prion science guidance for the national prion research program / [electronic resource] : Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science ; Rick Erdtmann and Laura B. Sivitz, editors. - Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2004. - xxvi, 262 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references.

Executive summary -- Prion diseases: an overview -- Diagnostics for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Testing blood for evidence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the United States -- Assessment of strategies to prevent and treat transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Infrastructure for research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies -- Risks of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies to the U.S. military.


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Prion diseases.
Prion diseases--Government policy--United States.


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