Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease from Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Human Brain Tissue

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 315, Issue 25, 1986, Pages 1614-1615

  Brown, Paul ^a   Gibbs, Clarence J ^a   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^a   Cathala, Françoise ^b   Labauge, Robert ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE VIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INOCULATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; SAIMIRI; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0022868345     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198612183152517     Document Type: Letter

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