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A systematic review of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease clusters: do clinical, epidemiologic, and genetic features reflect infectious clustering mechanisms?
Connecticut medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Barash Jed A, Dziura James
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BACKGROUND: While the cause of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is unknown, case clustering could suggest infectious transmission in some instances. METHODS: Publications of sCJD clusters were systematically identified and pooled to determine if their clinical, epidemiologic, and genetic features reflected potential infectious clustering mechanisms. RESULTS: The search yielded five clusters involving 23...
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