Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Final Assessment

Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Final Assessment

The era of iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has nearly closed; only occasional cases with exceptionally long incubation periods are still appearing. The principal sources of these outbreaks are contaminated growth hormone (226 cases) and dura mater grafts (228 cases) derived from human cad...

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Main Authors: Paul Brown, Jean-Philippe Brandel, Takeshi Sato, Yosikazu Nakamura, Jan MacKenzie, Robert G. Will, Anna Ladogana, Maurizio Pocchiari, Ellen W. Leschek, Lawrence B. Schonberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-06-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
dura mater
human growth hormone
iatrogenic disease
PRNP codon 129
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/6/12-0116_article

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