Towards an age-dependent transmission model of acquired and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Towards an age-dependent transmission model of acquired and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) might be transmitted by surgery. The purpose of this study was to investigate potential susceptibility to sCJD from surgery at juvenile age and in early adulthood.From Danish and Swedish national registries we identified 167 definite and probable sCJD cases...

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Main Authors: Jesús de Pedro-Cuesta, Ignacio Mahillo-Fernandez, Miguel Calero, Alberto Rábano, Mabel Cruz, Åke Siden, Pablo Martínez-Martín, Henning Laursen, María Ruiz-Tovar, Kåre Mølbak, EUROSURGYCJD Research Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4184848?pdf=render

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