Sentences with «transmissible spongiform encephalopathies»
The disease is part of a group known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which includes mad cow and a few other rare diseases. (sciencedaily.com)
Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue. (sciencemag.org)
Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions). (sciencedaily.com)