Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ˈɡaɪdəʃɛk/GHY-də-shek; 9 September 1923 – 12 Disember 2008) ialah ahli fizik dan penyelidik perubaan Amerika yang merupakan penerima (bersama Baruch S. Blumberg) Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan pada 1976 untuk bekerja pada agen berjangkit yang kemudian dikenal pasti sebagai kuru, penyakit prion manusia yang pertama diketahui.
Karya
Buku
Acute Infectious Hemorrhagic Fevers and Mycotoxicosis in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1953), Washington, DC: Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Rencana dan monograf
Daniel C. Gajdusek published hundreds of articles in scientific and medical journals. This is an incomplete list of some of the more cited ones.
Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton. Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru. National Institutes of Health, 1977.
Gajdusek; Carleton, Daniel; Gibbs, Clarence J.; Alpers, Mâ (1966). "Experimental transmission of a Kuru-like syndrome to chimpanzees". Nature. 209 (5025): 794–796. Bibcode:1966Natur.209..794G. doi:10.1038/209794a0. PMID5922150.
Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (1957). "Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea: the endemic occurrence of" kuru" in the native population". New England Journal of Medicine. 257 (20): 974–978. doi:10.1056/nejm195711142572005. PMID13483871.
Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (1985). "Hypothesis: interference with axonal transport of neurofilament as a common pathogenetic mechanism in certain diseases of the central nervous system". The New England Journal of Medicine. 312 (11): 714–719. doi:10.1056/nejm198503143121110. PMID2579335.