CET Karnataka Medical CET - Karnataka Medical Solved Paper-2009

  • question_answer
    The agents, which are known to cause CJD are

    A)  protein particles

    B)  a class of bacteria

    C)  a class of viruses

    D)  fungi

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Prions have a distinct extracellular form made up of protein. The prion particle does not contain any nucleic acid. However, it is infectious and prions are known to cause a variety of diseases in animals such as scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (BSE or mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and kuru and a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans.


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