Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the Quebec blood supply

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 412-413

  Germain, M ^a   Decary, F ^a   Chiavetta, J ^a   Goldman, M ^a  

^a HÉMA QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CANADA; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; NOTE; PRION DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034702903     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (6)

1. A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK
2. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
3. New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD): The risk of transmission by blood transfusion and the potential benefit of leukocyte-reduction of blood components