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Clinical and laboratory features of 14 young Chinese probable sCJD patients.
Prion - 4 Mar 2017
Shi Qi, Xiao Kang, Chen Cao, Zhou Wei, Gao Chen, Wang Jing, Zhang Bao-Yun, Wang Yuan, Dong Xiao-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) occurs frequently in the relatively older population, mainly in the groups of 60-69 and 70-79 year-old. Since 2006 when China performed national CJD surveillance, 14 young probable sCJD patients below 40 year-old were identified, counting for 1.93% of all probable sCJD cases. The clinical features of young probable sCJD cases, including the onset feature, the presence of...
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