[any of various brain diseases in humans and animals in which areas of the brain slowly degenerate and take on a spongy appearance. ( CSP )]
UMLS (NCI) C0162534 Relation/PAR: Central Nervous System Infections
Organic Brain Syndrome
Neurodegenerative Diseases
latent virus infection
Relation/CHD: scrapie
Gerstmann Straussler syndrome
CJD
KURU
scrapie
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform