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Research Paper

Synthetic Scrapie Infectivity: Interaction between Recombinant PrP and Scrapie Brain-Derived RNA

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Pages 132-144 | Received 13 May 2014, Accepted 17 Nov 2014, Published online: 16 Mar 2015

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