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Such tests have created the latest mystery about spongiform diseases.

Many scientists are now convinced that prions cause spongiform diseases.

She let him stroke her hair while he told her again about spongiform encephalopathy.

Marsh was not suggesting that all 100,000 were carriers of a spongiform encephalopathy.

The agents that cause spongiform diseases have unconventional biologic properties.

The spongiform encephalopathies varied widely in their impact on susceptible populations.

Similar spongiform diseases affect a variety of animals.

Sheep, deer and elk can also get spongiform encephalopothies.

Like other spongiform encephalopathies, scrapie is caused by a prion.

A few of the animals had been found to have developed a spongiform encephalopathy of unknown origin.

Some local residents are worried that the labs would be used to study spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.

But it has been a mystery how this and spongiform encephalopathies, such as mad cow, kill brain cells.

Those two documents called for information on the alarming news concerning cases of bovine spongiform encephalitis.

Humans are afflicted by three forms of spongiform encephalopathy, animals by four.

The spongiform diseases showed baf-fling and diverse transmission characteristics.

He had a background in biochemistry research, and was fascinated when he started reading about the spongiform diseases.

It wasn't until 1988 that the neuropathology of spongiform encephalopathy was properly described in cows.

Scientists have long been fascinated by a group of diseases, called spongiform encephalopathies, that eat away at the brain, causing madness and death.

Collectively, the diseases are called spongiform encephalopathies, for the spongelike holes they leave in the brain.

They found 18 different mutations in the prion protein that could be linked to inherited spongiform diseases.

This is similar to what occurs in other spongiform encephalopathies, and the condition can be mistaken for Alzheimer's dementia.

Unlike mad cow disease - bovine spongiform encephalopathy - it is not thought to threaten humans.

It even detected and threw out the wrong-handed proteins that caused spongiform encephalopathies."

"To suggest that the discovery of a spongiform encephalopathy in a cat increases the risk to man is absolute nonsense.

An unknown number of American sheep are infected with scrapie, which, like mad cow disease, is a spongiform encephalopathy.