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slow virus, technically a virus, such as a lentivirus, that causes symptoms in an infected host long after the original infection and progresses slowly. Although many viruses fit this description, the term slow virus is usually reserved for the first recognized lentiviruses, such as the virus that causes visna (a disease of sheep). A slow virus was proposed as a cause for those diseases now generally recognized as prion prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called "mad cow disease," in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in deer and ..... Click the link for more information. diseases (e.g., Creutzfeld-Jacob disease and scrapie). |
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| The disease was then thought to be caused by a slow virus. In the past, the etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies was believed to be a slow virus, primarily because of its transmissibility, ability to retain infectivity after filtration, and long incubation period. |
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