New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

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New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Infectious disease clinics of North America - 1 Mar 1998

Schonberger L B

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New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) are invariably fatal, subacute degenerative diseases of the brain that are classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. BSE was first diagnosed in 1986 as part of an ongoing epizootic in the United...

Topics

Animals
Cattle
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
Genetic Variation
Humans
Mice
Population Surveillance
Prions
United Kingdom
United States

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