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Inherited susceptibility, ovine brain consumption and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)

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  1. Research Institute of Preventive Medicine, 809 58, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    E. Mitrova

  2. Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 809 39, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

    Vlastimil Mayer

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Mitrova, E., Mayer, V. Inherited susceptibility, ovine brain consumption and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). J Neurol 226, 219–220 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00313385

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