Tissue classification for the epidemiological assessment of surgical transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A proposal on hypothetical risk levels

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Rábano, Alberto ^a   De Pedro Cuesta, Jesús ^b   Mølbak, Kåre ^c   Siden, Åke ^d   Calero, Miguel ^e   Laursen, Henning ^f  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^b CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^f Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EUROPE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CROSS INFECTION; DENMARK; FINLAND; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SWEDEN; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSMISSION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CROSS INFECTION; DENMARK; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FINLAND; HUMANS; PRPSC PROTEINS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERILIZATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SWEDEN; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 14644442396     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-9     Document Type: Article

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