Animal TSEs and public health: What remains of past lessons?

Saima Zafar; Mohsin Shafiq; Olivier Andréoletti; Inga Zerr

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006759

Animal TSEs and public health: What remains of past lessons?

PLoS Pathog. 2018 Feb 8;14(2):e1006759. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006759. eCollection 2018 Feb.

Authors

Saima Zafar¹, Mohsin Shafiq¹, Olivier Andréoletti², Inga Zerr¹

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Dementia Center and DZNE, Neurology, Georg-August University, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany.
² UMR INRA ENVT 1225, Interactions Hôtes Agents Pathogènes, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Cattle
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / epidemiology
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / transmission
Global Health*
Humans
Prion Diseases / epidemiology
Prion Diseases / transmission
Prion Diseases / veterinary*
Public Health Practice*
Public Health Surveillance*
Risk
Wasting Disease, Chronic / epidemiology
Wasting Disease, Chronic / transmission
Zoonoses / epidemiology
Zoonoses / prevention & control*
Zoonoses / transmission

Grants and funding

The study was performed within the recently established Clinical Dementia Center at the University Medical Hospital Göttingen and was partly supported by grants from the EU Joint Program–Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND – DEMTEST (Biomarker based diagnosis of rapid progressive dementias-optimization of diagnostic protocols, 01ED1201A). This work was supported by a grant from Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative-Infectious Diseases Research (HAI-IDR) and APRI-Human prions–distinguishing sporadic from familial forms via structure and function as well as from the DZNE clinical project (Helmholtz). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.