Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease

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The same prion strain causes vCJD and BSE

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Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru

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Molecular basis of phenotypic variability in sporadc creudeldt‐jakob disease

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Experimental Transmission of a Kuru-like Syndrome to Chimpanzees

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Human spongiform encephalopathy: The national institutes of health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease

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Conformational disease

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Spongiform Encephalopathy): Transmission to the Chimpanzee

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Degenerative Disease of the Central Nervous System in New Guinea: The Endemic Occurrence of Kuru in the Native Population

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CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE VIRUS ISOLATIONS FROM THE GERSTMANN-STRÄUSSLER SYNDROME

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Evidence for human transmission of amyloid-β pathology and cerebral amyloid angiopathy

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Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods

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SCRAPIE AND KURU

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Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics

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Prion disease genetics

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Pathology of Kuru.

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A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure

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Transmission of amyloid-β protein pathology from cadaveric pituitary growth hormone

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Kuru

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Phenotype-genotype studies in kuru: Implications for new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

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Biochemical evidence of cannibalism at a prehistoric Puebloan site in southwestern Colorado

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Transmission and Passage of Experimental "Kuru" to Chimpanzees

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Genetic risk factors for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study

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Transmission and passage of experimenal "kuru" to chimpanzees.

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Oral Transmission of Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and Scrapie to Nonhuman Primates

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Increased Susceptibility to Kuru of Carriers of the <i>PRNP</i> 129 Methionine/Methionine Genotype

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Infection as the Etiology of Spongiform Encephalopathy (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)

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KURU: CLINICAL STUDY OF A NEW SYNDROME RESEMBLING PARALYSIS AGITANS IN NATIVES OF THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS OF AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA

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A clinical study of kuru patients with long incubation periods at the end of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea

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The epidemiology of kuru: monitoring the epidemic from its peak to its end

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The Natural Incubation Period of Kuru and the Episodes of Transmission in Three Clusters of Patients

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α-Synuclein: Multiple System Atrophy PrionsPreprint

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Thinking About Cannibalism

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Prions, prionoids and pathogenic proteins in Alzheimer disease

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CANNIBALISM IN THE KURU REGION OF NEW GUINEA*

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Kuru prions and sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions have equivalent transmission properties in transgenic and wild-type mice

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Agent strain variation in human prion disease: insights from a molecular and pathological review of the National Institutes of Health series of experimentally transmitted disease

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EXPERIMENTAL "KURU" IN CHIMPANZEES A Pathological Report

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Immunohistochemical localization of prion protein in spongiform encephalopathies and normal brain tissue

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Slow-Virus Infections of the Nervous System

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Genome-wide association study in multiple human prion diseases suggests genetic risk factors additional to PRNP

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Kuru, Prions, and Human Affairs: Thinking About Epidemics

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Pathology and Immunocytochemistry of a Kuru Brain

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KURU AND CANNIBALISM

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Molecular pathology, classification, and diagnosis of sporadic human prion disease variants.

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Ultrastructural study of florid plaques in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a comparison with amyloid plaques in kuru, sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker disease

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Central and peripheral pathology of kuru: pathological analysis of a recent case and comparison with other forms of human prion disease

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EXPERIMENTAL KURU ENCEPHALOPATHY IN CHIMPANZEES AND SPIDER MONKEYS: ELECTRON— MICROSCOPIC STUDIES

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Comparative Neuropathology of Kuru with the New Variant of Creutzfeldt‐Jakob Disease: Evidence for Strain of Agent Predominating Over Genotype of Host

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The origin of the prion agent of kuru: molecular and biological strain typing

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Genetic susceptibility, evolution and the kuru epidemic

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Kuru with incubation periods exceeding two decades

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Changing Patterns of Kuru: Epidemiological Changes in the Period of Increasing Contact of the Fore People with Western Civilization

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EXPERIMENTAL KURU IN THE SPIDER MONKEY: HISTOPATHOLOGICAL AND ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE BRAIN DURING EARLY STAGES OF INCUBATION

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Cannibals and garbage piles

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A possible genetic basis for kuru.

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NEUROPATHOLOGIC FINDINGS IN EXOTIC NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS AMONG NATIVES OF THE HIGHLANDS OF NEW GUINEA

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Studies on Kuru

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Kuru

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Prion protein accumulation in the spinal cords of patients with sporadic and growth hormone associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Urgent Opportunistic Observations: The Study of Changing, Transient and Disappearing Phenomena of Medical Interest in Disrupted Primitive Human Communities

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Understanding kuru: the contribution of anthropology and medicine

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EXPERIMENTAL KURU IN THE CHIMPANZEE

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REEVALUATION OF THE ULTRASTRUCTURAL PATHOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTAL CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE

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OBSERVATIONS ON KURU. III : PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES IN FIVE CASES

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Attempts to Demonstrate a Transmissible Agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other Sub-Acute and Chronic Nervous System Degenerations of Man

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The kuru infectious agent is a unique geographic isolate distinct from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and scrapie agents

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Kuru: Forty Years Later, A Historical Note

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A clinico-pathological study of a case of kuru

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Further Observations on the Pathology of Kuru^*: A Study of the Two Cerebra in Serial Section

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Genetic studies in relation of kuru. I. Cultural, historical, and demographic background.

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Neuropathology and the Scrapie‐Kuru Connection

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Transmission and characterization of the agents of spongiform virus encephalopathies: kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, scrapie and mink encephalopathy.

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Transmission of Kuru from Man to Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta) 8½ Years after Inoculation

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Genetic Studies in Relation to Kuru: An Overview

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OBSERVATIONS ON KURU : I. A POSSIBLE GENETIC BASIS

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Is the neuropathology of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru similar?

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A potential role for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in Neanderthal extinction

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Kuru: the old epidemic in a new mirror

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Transmissible and nontransmissible dementias: distinction between primary cause and pathogenetic mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease and aging.

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Lessons of kuru research: background to recent studies with some personal reflections

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Kuru: An appraisal of five years of investigation

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Kuru and its contribution to medicine

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Kuru likened to scrapie: the story remembered

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Cannibalism, kuru and anthropology.

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Kuru Truths: Obtaining Fore Narratives

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Kuru: a half-opened window onto the landscape of neurodegenerative diseases.

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