HLTC25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Amyloid
24 Apr 2022
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Lecture 10 prions the fact that the knowledge about infectious disease really revolved around bacteria realized that they were infectious diseases that it didn"t fit the testing used for bacteria. There were some disease-causing elements in the flowthrough, there were things smaller than bacteria that could cause disease, and that was the realization of viruses, that cause disease. An outbreak of disease caused look at a new disease-causing agent. Agents that cause that could cause infectious disease, and that was prions. 1920s - descriptions of this neurological disease, didn"t pass the tests of being an infectious disease. A big outbreak caused to worry about what"s happening in the population identified prions as a disease agent. Prions - something that were outside of that whole realm of thinking about infectious agents, slow took time for observable elements of disease to happen) They are proteins - worrisome because we are made of proteins.
