Review: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

doi:10.1111/j.1750-3639.1996.tb00869.x

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Review: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) - 1 Oct 1996

Ironside J W

Abstract excerpt

The clinicopathological spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has recently been extended by the identification of an apparently new variant of this disorder in the UK. The hypothesis that this new disorder is causally related to the transmissible agent responsible for bovine spongiform encephalop...

Topics

Animals
Brain
Cattle
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
Humans
Phenotype
Prions

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