Abstract

It is suggested that the agent for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is trasferred from an original peripheral site of infection into the brain by recruited and selected circulating macrophages/monocytes. It is because of this selection that strains of disease appear to be different when infecting separate species, but retain characteristics when infecting a single species.

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