Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: The Challenge of Preventing a Rare but Potentially Devastating Exposure

Abstract excerpt

Although rare, patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in their differential diagnosis of progressive dementia and movement disorder could continue to present to hospitals for care. However, U.S.-based infection control guidelines do not fully address the possibility of vCJD. After near-misses involving increasing numbers of patients with clinical findings and epidemiologic risks compatible with vCJ...

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• Corneal Transplantation
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
• Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
• Food Contamination
• Iatrogenic Disease
• Papua New Guinea
• Pituitary Gland
• Prion Diseases

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Literature Corpus work

915b3dc6-cd9b-5983-bec3-1db78755c76f

DOI

10.1101/2021.04.08.21255124