Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Death, United States

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Death, United States

The only variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) patient identified in the United States died in 2004, and the diagnosis was confirmed by analysis of autopsy tissue. The patient likely acquired the disease while growing up in Great Britain before immigrating to the United States in 1992. Additional...

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Main Authors: Ermias D. Belay, James J. Sejvar, Wun-Ju Shieh, Steven T. Wiersma, Wen-Quan Zou, Pierluigi Gambetti, Stephen Hunter, Ryan A. Maddox, Landis Crockett, Sherif R. Zaki, Lawrence B. Schonberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
prion disease
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
epidemiology
surveillance
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/9/05-0371_article

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/9/05-0371_article

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