title: [Infectious protein, "prion"--from the discovery of Kuru to the emergence of a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
authors.forename: Tatsufumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Katamine
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform; D006801:Humans; D007729:Kuru; D017096:Prion Diseases