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A French cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a molecular analysis.
European journal of neurology - 1 Sept 2002
Beaudry P, Parchi P, Peoc'h K, Desbordes P, Dartigues J-F, Vital A, Vital C, Capellari S, Gambetti P, Delasnerie-Lauprêtre N, Mary J Y, Laplanche J-L
Abstract excerpt
We report the molecular and phenotypic analysis of a French cluster of three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), two of them occurring in 1998 in the same village and the other in 1995 in a neighboring village. Analyses of the occurrence of these events in a close area with less than 3000 inhabitants over the 1992-1999 notification period confirmed that they are rare. This could be explained either by a...
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