Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (spongiform encephalopathy): transmission to the chimpanzee.
Biopsy material taken from the brain of a patient with CreutzfeldtJakob disease with status spongiosus induced a similar fatal encephalopathy in a chimpanzee 13 months after inoculation.
D000820:Animal Diseases; D000818:Animals; D001259:Ataxia; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D003704:Dementia; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D007729:Kuru; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009207:Myoclonus