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Reviewed for currency February, 2020 Prions are the transmissible agents of a class of neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other mammals. Prions differ from other infectious agents in that they contain no information-bearing nucleic acid. Rather, they are composed mainly,…
Hundreds of viruses exhibit tropism for the central (CNS) and/or peripheral (PNS) nervous systems. In the case of some viruses, involvement of the CNS or PNS is the predominant feature of illness, whereas in others involvement of the nervous system…