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Prion infectivity in the spleen of a PRNP heterozygous individual with subclinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Brain : a journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2013
Bishop Matthew T, Diack Abigail B, Ritchie Diane L, Ironside James W, Will Robert G, Manson Jean C
Abstract excerpt
Blood transfusion has been identified as a source of human-to-human transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Three cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been identified following red cell transfusions from donors who subsequently developed variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and...
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