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Dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Japan: clinicopathological and molecular characterization of the two distinct subtypes.
Neuropathology : official journal of the Japanese Society of Neuropathology - 1 Oct 2009
Yamada Masahito, Noguchi-Shinohara Moeko, Hamaguchi Tsuyoshi, Nozaki Ichiro, Kitamoto Tetsuyuki, Sato Takeshi, Nakamura Yosikazu, Mizusawa Hidehiro
Abstract excerpt
Up to February 2008, a total of 132 patients with dura mater graft-associated Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (dCJD) have been identified in Japan, accounting for a majority of the world's patients with dCJD. The patients received dura mater grafts from 1978 to 1993. Lyodura (B. Braun, Melsungen, Germany) was used for all the patients in whom the brand name of the dura mater could be identified. After the incubation...
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