This comprehensive work, aimed at both students and researchers alike, systematically covers all aspects of prion diseases.

• Offers more than a simple translation by way of new and up-to-date coverage of prions
• Extends subject matter for scientists (basic research) and medical doctors, since it is here that the subject of prion diseases continues to be very topical
• Reduces the subject matter taken from veterinary medicine and agriculture, since the bovine disease BSE has somewhat faded into the background
• Includes new chapters on immunization and...