Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Austria;Die Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit in Osterreich

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 759-763

  Hainfellner, J A ^a   Jellinger, K ^b   Diringer, H ^c   Guentchev, M ^a   Kleinert, R ^d   Pilz, P ^e   Maier, H ^f   Budka, H ^a,g  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e Salzburger Landeskliniken   (Austria)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; epidemiology; prion disease; transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BRAIN; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030459673     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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