Abstract
Since the emergence of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, universal precautions have been advocated for cross-infection control procedures within dental practices. The bovine spongiform encephalopathy outbreak in the UK in the late 1980s and the related variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) has provided cross-infection controls with a new challenge: the abnormal form of the prion protein responsible for these diseases is less susceptible to denaturation by heat than bacteria and viruses.
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