About the Authors

Roger A. Moore

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Mark W. Head

Affiliation National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

James W. Ironside

Affiliation National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Diane L. Ritchie

Affiliation National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Gianluigi Zanusso

Affiliation Department of Neurological and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Young Pyo Choi

Affiliation Department of Neural Development and Disease, Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Suzette A. Priola

spriola@nih.gov

Affiliation Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAP RAM MWH JWI. Performed the experiments: RAM YPC DLR MWH JWI. Analyzed the data: SAP RAM MWH JWI DLR GZ YPC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWH JWI GZ. Wrote the paper: SAP RAM MWH JWI.