D. Carleton Gajdusek

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1976

Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru

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From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1971-1980, Editor Jan Lindsten, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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