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Blindness Revealing the First Probable Case of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Mauritania: A Case Report

2026-04-27

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background The Heidenhain variant of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare prion disorder presenting with isolated visual symptoms before the onset of classical neurological features. Prion diseases remain largely undiagnosed across sub-Saharan Africa due to limited surveillance capacity and restricted access to diagnostic biomarkers. Case presentation: A 60-year-old Mau...

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4891b124-11b3-50bf-ac40-2d1e8ccaddd1
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9506687/v1
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