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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Germany: a prospective 12-year surveillance.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 May 2007
Heinemann U, Krasnianski A, Meissner B, Varges D, Kallenberg K, Schulz-Schaeffer W J, Steinhoff B J, Grasbon-Frodl E M, Kretzschmar H A, Zerr I
Abstract excerpt
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder with a worldwide incidence of 1-1.5 per million. As in other countries, a CJD surveillance unit with a clinical and neuropathological approach was established in Goettingen (Germany) in 1993. Here we report the epidemiological data from a prospective 12-year surveillance. Since 1993, there has been an increasing incidence of CJD, from...
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