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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, prion diseases) are slow infections of the human nervous system, consisting of at least four diseases of humans ( Table 304.1 ): kuru; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with its variants—sporadic CJD (sCJD), familial CJD (fCJD), iatrogenic…