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Heightened incidence of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is associated with a shift in clinicopathological profiles.
Journal of neurology - 1 Oct 2008
Stoeck Katharina, Hess Klaus, Amsler Lorenz, Eckert Tobias, Zimmermann Dieter, Aguzzi Adriano, Glatzel Markus
Abstract excerpt
Incidences of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are monitored by national registries in the majority of countries in Western Europe. During the past 13 years incidences for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in Switzerland fluctuated between 0.4 and 2.63 cases/10(6) inhabitants. We have compared clinicpathological patient profiles including geographic and gender distribution, age at disease onset,...
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