Age and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1611-1612

  Bacchetti, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRION DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0344306552     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0912.030361     Document Type: Short Survey

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