Which of the Following Statements About TSEs (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies)is

question 59

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) is false?

• A)TSEs include scrapie in sheep,mad cow disease,chronic wasting disease in deer and elk,and kuru and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
• B)The incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans increased after an outbreak of mad cow disease in England,suggesting that mad cow disease may be transmitted to humans.
• C)Viroids are the likely cause of TSEs.
• D)TSEs do not seem to be affected by treatments that would eliminate nucleic acid-based diseases.
• E)Infectious TSE preparations do not seem to contain DNA or RNA.

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