Gajdusek

Gaj·du·sek

(gī′də-shĕk′), D(aniel) Carleton Born 1923.

American virologist. He shared a 1976 Nobel Prize for research on the origin and spread of infectious diseases.

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Carleton Gajdusek concurred with Richardson: "We agree with Richardson (1977) that Creutzfeldt's case probably can be excluded from classification as a spongiform encephalopathy on the basis of his own clinical and pathological descriptions, although a specific alternative diagnosis cannot be made" (5).

Etymologia: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Dalglish underlined their superiority early in the second half before Miroslav Gajdusek fired a consolation.

My dad knew we would win when he saw shaking in tunnel the Czech stars' knees; 40 YEARS ON RECORD SPECIAL ON AN UNFORGETTABLE SCOTS VICTORY; Ally's son Andy relives the magic of 1977 win that put us on brink of World Cup

In the literature related to reading English as a second language, it has been widely acknowledged that meta-cognitive awareness is significant in not only enhancing teaching and learning reading, but is also an important factor in improving reading comprehension (Auerbach & Paxton, 1997; Baker, 2008; Carrell, 1989; Carrell, Gajdusek, & Wise, 1998).

Assessing students' meta-cognitive awareness reading strategies in Jordan

Brown P, Gibbs CJ, Gajdusek DC, Cathala F, LaBauge R.

Study of mortality from infectious diseases in Brazil from 2005 to 2010: risks involved in handling corpses/Estudo da mortalidade no Brasil por doencas infecciosas, de 2005 a 2010: riscos envolvidos no manejo de cadaveres

Gajdusek DC, Salazar AM (1982) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinsonian syndroms in high incidence among the Auya and Jakai people of West New Guinea.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis plus syndrome: a rare case report

Daniel Gajdusek, Michale Alpers, and Baruch Blumberg won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1976 for their research demonstrating prion diseases were infectious across species, so this is of great concern to humans.

Zombies and the walking dead: deadly serious or just plain silly?

LOOSELY based on the true story of physician Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Hanya Yanagihara's debut novel is a shocking exploration of whether a man's personal flaws cancel out his professional achievement.

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Carleton Gajdusek, a Nobel Prize-winning physician and medical researcher, Yanagihara's multilayered and immensely ambitious debut novel entertains readers with "elements of fantasy, horror, and Indiana Jones-like adventure (Chicago Tribune) while challenging them with one of the most despicable protagonists in recent memory.

Postcolonial Africa in contemporary fiction

Gajdusek (1988) afirma que los textos literarios son pequenos contextos reducidos y creemos que este hecho, lejos de ser un inconveniente, resulta ser una ventaja en las clases de idiomas.

La literatura como herramienta docente en asignaturas de contenido impartidas en ingles: una propuesta practica con un cuento.

Brown P Gibbs CJ Jr, Rodgers-Johnson P Asher DM, Sulima MP Bacote A, Goldfarb LG, Gajdusek DC.

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease: an 8-year experience from a single center in Turkey/Sporadik Creutzfeldt-Jacob Hastaligi: Turkiye'den bir merkezin sekiz yillik tecrubesi

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek of the United States National Institute of Health.

Prions: a brief overview

Indeed, the audience will likely have a clear sense of what's going on long before scribes Karl Gajdusek and Michael DeBruyn (working from a 2005 short story that Kosinski later developed into a graphic novel) get around to spelling things out; suffice to say the title refers to more than just the physical aftermath of Earth's cataclysmic destruction.