Decontamination of Prions
Riesner, Detlev / Deslys, Jean-Philippe / Pocchiari, Maurizio / Somerville, Robert
Why a new book on "Decontamination of Prions" when several good works on sterilization and decontamination of pathogenic microbes are available? Prions are the agents of BSE (mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease of deer and elk and the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob-disease. These agents are much more stable against decontamination procedures than are other microbial agents.
In the first part of the present book the history of appearance and spr...