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How do you find out if infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies?
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Brain biopsy: The gold standard for diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is a brain biopsy. Eeg and MRI can show findings suggestive of but not diagnostic for tses.
Answered 6/10/2014
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