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ALPERS, Michael

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1965 CE

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Attempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.

GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008)
GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008) GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001) ALPERS, Michael

In their Addendum on p. 46 the authors stated that 20 and 21 months post innocculation in the brain with brain material from Kuru patients two chimpanzees showed symptoms of an illness suggestive of Kuru. Digital facs…