About the Authors
- Gino Miele
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* E-mail: g.miele@dundee.ac.uk (GM); adriano.aguzzi@usz.ch (AA)
Current address: Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, Sir James Black Centre, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Harald Seeger
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Denis Marino
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Ralf Eberhard
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Mathias Heikenwalder
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Katharina Stoeck
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Max Basagni
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Affiliation Prion Diagnostica Srl, Rho, Italy
- Richard Knight
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Affiliation The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Alison Green
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Affiliation The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Francesca Chianini
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Affiliation Moredun Research Institute, Pentlands Science Park, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Rudolf P. Wüthrich
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Affiliation UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Clinic for Nephrology, Zürich, Switzerland
- Christoph Hock
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Affiliation Division of Psychiatry Research, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Inga Zerr
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Affiliation National TSE Reference Center, Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
- Adriano Aguzzi
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* E-mail: g.miele@dundee.ac.uk (GM); adriano.aguzzi@usz.ch (AA)
Affiliation Department of Pathology, UniversitätsSpital Zürich, Institute of Neuropathology, Zürich, Switzerland
Competing Interests
Max Bassagni has an interest in Prion Diagnostica Srl, which commercializes prion detection assays. All remaining authors declare no conflict of interests.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GM AA. Performed the experiments: GM DM RE. Analyzed the data: GM HS AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM HS MH KS MB RK AG FC RW CH IZ AA. Wrote the paper: GM AA.