title: [Prion infections: most important medical and veterinary aspects].
abstract: The paper reviews the most important and topical information on prionic diseases in the medical and veterinary context. It gives data on bovine sponge-like encephalopathy and other new prionic infections in animals, as well as on a new type of the Greutzfeldt-jakob disease. The common pathology, pathogenesis, and transmission of the infections of this group, a prionic concept of their etiology, constituents of present-day epidemiological survey are generalized. Some most tasks of medical and veterinary importance, which are most essential to Russian science, are worded in the conclusion.
authors.affiliation: Moscow Medical Academy of IM Sechenov.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Vorob'ev
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Makarov
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000635:transmission; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious; D006801:Humans; D017096:Prion Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology