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Young-onset CJD: age and disease phenotype in variant and sporadic forms.
Functional neurology - 1 Jan 2000
Corato Manuel, Cereda Cristina, Cova Emanuela, Ferrarese Carlo, Ceroni Mauro
Abstract excerpt
Since 1996, there have been over 140 reports of a Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease variant (vCJD), with a striking prevalence of these cases in the UK. The main peculiarity of vCJD is its onset in young people, but other features also distinguish it from sporadic CJD. Despite epidemiological data suggesting a link with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the origin of vCJD is not completely understood. We hypothesized...
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