Commentary: Predicting the unpredictable: The future incidence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 792-793

  Ghani, Azra C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE;

BIRTH; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIET; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEAT PRODUCTS;

EID: 0142247568     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg276     Document Type: Note

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