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Study question : choose the one correct answer :
A patient with symptoms of creutzfeldt-jacob disease caused by eating contaminated beef would most likely exhibit which of the following :
a-circulating antibodies specific for bovine cns aantigens
b-dna copies of the bovine infectious agent integrated into chromosomes of the patient’s diseased cns tissue
c-cytotoxic t lymphocyte directed against cns-specific antigens found in both cattle and humans
d-amyloid deposits that have bovine rather than the human amino acide sequences
e-lack of any bovine-specific protein or nucleic acide or an immune response
A patient with symptoms of creutzfeldt-jacob disease caused by eating contaminated beef would most likely exhibit which of the following :
a-circulating antibodies specific for bovine cns aantigens
b-dna copies of the bovine infectious agent integrated into chromosomes of the patient’s diseased cns tissue
c-cytotoxic t lymphocyte directed against cns-specific antigens found in both cattle and humans
d-amyloid deposits that have bovine rather than the human amino acide sequences
e-lack of any bovine-specific protein or nucleic acide or an immune response
Sat, 2007-09-01 19:57
qusei
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so I'm not sure .. but i'll try
a and c are wrong coz there is no immune response ..
b is also wrong coz it doesn't have a neuclic acid ..
d what i know is that the PrP(Sc) is associated with the disease but i don't know if its specific for a special animal ..
finally my answer is
E 
and sorry 4 being too late
a& c an important characteristic of the prion disease