Letters to the Editor

Hill, 1999, Investigation of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other human prion diseases with tonsil biopsy samples, Lancet, 353, 183, 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)12075-5

Brown, 1995, Can Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease be transmitted by transfusion?, Curr Opin Haematol, 2, 472, 10.1097/00062752-199502060-00012

Hadlow, 1982, Natural infection of Suffolk sheep with scrapie virus, J Infect Dis, 146, 657, 10.1093/infdis/146.5.657

Asher, 1985, Subacute spongiform encephalopathies: slow infections of the nervous system, Microbiol Newsletter, 7, 129, 10.1016/S0196-4399(85)80011-8

Brown, 1999, Further studies of blood infectivity in an experimental model of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, with an explanation of why blood components do not transmit Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, Transfusion, 39, 1169, 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1999.39111169.x