High incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in rural Calabria, Italy

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9145, 1998, Pages 1989-1990

  D'Alessandro, Marco ^b   Petraroli, Rosella ^b   Ladogana, Anna ^b   Pocchiari, Maurizio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0000074597     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61335-9     Document Type: Article

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