[Prion disease surveillance in Japan: analysis of 1,241 patients].

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The Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Surveillance Committee has identified 1,241 patients with prion diseases during 1999-2009, including 953 with sporadic CJD (sCJD) (76.8%), 207 with genetic prion diseases (16.7%), 78 with environmentally acquired prion diseases (6.3%), and 3 with unclassified CJD. Among atypical cases of sCJD, most common was MM2 type including the cortical and thalamic forms. The genetic cases...

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