Analyses of the survival time and the influencing factors of chinese patients with prion diseases based on the surveillance data from 2008-2011.

BACKGROUND: Prion diseases are kinds of progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disorders. So far, survival time of the patients with these diseases in China is unclear. METHODS: Based upon the surveillance data from Chinese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance network from January 2008 to...

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Main Authors: Cao Chen, Ji-Chun Wang, Qi Shi, Wei Zhou, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Jin Zhang, Chan Tian, Chen Gao, Xiao-Ping Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3645993?pdf=render