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BSE and human prion disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Paul J. Harrison
Paul J. Harrison*
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University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford 0X3 7JX
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 170 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. 298 - 300
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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