Updated projections of future vCJD deaths in the UK

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ghani, Azra C ^a   Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a   Anderson, Roy M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AGE; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EPIDEMIC; FUTUROLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; PREDICTION; SURVIVAL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY;

EID: 0141766454     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-3-4     Document Type: Article

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