Healthcare professionals should exert increased surveillance for transmissible Creutzfeldt ... mechanisms of a number of degenerative diseases usually defined as spongiform encephalopathies.

Mammalian transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion) and amyloid diseases seem to involve the self-propagation of abnormal fibrillar or sub-fibrillar protein aggregates. Similar processes ...

Encephalopathy refers to a range of conditions that damage the brain's ... It sometimes results from a rare group of conditions called prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

Agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) usually enter the body via a peripheral route and replicate in lymphoreticular tissues before moving into the brain. Any impairment of the ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a family of rare progressive, neurodegenerative illnesses that affect both humans and animals. TSE surveillance is ...

Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are dreaded neurological diseases with a progressive course, and are invariably fatal. They are caused by tiny ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...