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| Title |
An overview of animal prion diseases
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Virology Journal, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1743-422x-8-493 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Muhammad Imran, Saqib Mahmood |
| Abstract |
Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions affecting human and a wide range of animal species. The pathogenesis of prion diseases is associated with the accumulation of aggregates of misfolded conformers of host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrPC). Animal prion diseases include scrapie of sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, transmissible mink encephalopathy, feline spongiform encephalopathy, exotic ungulate spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of cervids and spongiform encephalopathy of primates. Although some cases of sporadic atypical scrapie and BSE have also been reported, animal prion diseases have basically occurred via the acquisition of infection from contaminated feed or via the exposure to contaminated environment. Scrapie and chronic wasting disease are naturally sustaining epidemics. The transmission of BSE to human has caused more than 200 cases of variant Cruetzfeldt-Jacob disease and has raised serious public health concerns. The present review discusses the epidemiology, clinical neuropathology, transmissibility and genetics of animal prion diseases. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 83% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 186 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 179 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 17% |
| Researcher | 29 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 13% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 14% |
| Unknown | 36 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 56 | 30% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 27 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 14% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 14 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 10% |
| Unknown | 37 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2022.
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