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Prion disease: A disease due to a prion, a proteinaceous infectious particle that lacks nucleic acids. Prions are composed largely, if not entirely, of an altered form (an abnormal isoform) of a normal cellular protein.

The known prion diseases of humans and other mammals are:

See also: Prusiner, Stanley B..

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