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Student Web Pages
Monique Anderson, Humans and Viruses 2004, http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/prion/2004anderson/index.htmlCindy Lin, Humans and Viruses 2002, http://www.stanford.edu/~cinders8/prions2002.html
Erica Chung and Carmen Holmes, Humans and Viruses 2000, http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/prion/2000/prions.html
John Mumm, Humans and Viruses 1999, http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/prion/prion2.html
Other Informative Links
CDC Homepage on Prion Diseases, http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/prions/WHO manual for surveillance of human TSE, 2003, http://www.who.int/bloodproducts/TSE-manual2003.pdf
USFDA Bad Bug Book - Prions and TSE, http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/prion.html
NOVA Online - The Brain Eater, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madcow/
Additional References
Prion Diseases. World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/zoonoses/diseases/prion_diseases/en/Fields Virology, pg. 3064-3075
Schwartz, Maxime. How the Cows Turned Mad. University of California Press. 2003.
Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feasts. Simon & Schuster: New York. 1997.
Castilla, Joaquin; et al. In Vitro Generation of Scrapie Prions. Cell, Vol. 121, 195-206, April, 22, 2005.
Mad Cow Disease. The Environmental Literacy Council. http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/153.html
Beisel, Christopher E. and Morens, David M. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and the Acquired and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Clinical Infectious Diseases 38:697Ð704; 2004.
Spencer, Charlotte A. Mad Cows and Cannibals Ð A Guide to the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. Prentice HallÕs Exploring Biology Series, 2004.
Mead, et al. Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kuru-like Epidemics. Science 300:640-643; April 2003.
Smith and Bradley. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its epidemiology. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. British Medical Bulletin 66: 185Ð198; 2003.