Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Austria

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 139-142

  Hainfellner, Johann Andreas ^a   Jellinger, Kurt ^b   Diringer, Heino ^f   Guentchev, Marin ^a   Kleinert, Reinhold ^c   Pilz, Peter ^d   Maier, Hans ^e   Budka, Herbert ^a,g  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d Landesnemenklinik   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Epidemiology; Neuropathology; Prion disease; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029812599     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.61.2.139     Document Type: Article

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