Descriptive epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in six European countries, 1993-1995

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 763-767

  Will, R G ^a   Alperovitch, A ^b   Poser, S ^c   Pocchiari, M ^d   Hofman, A ^e   Mitrova, E ^f   De Silva, R ^a   D'Alessandro, M ^d   Delasnerie Laupretre, N ^b   Zerr, I ^c   Van Duijn, C ^e  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIONS; RISK FACTORS; SCRAPIE; SHEEP; ZOONOSES;

EID: 15144348474     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430611     Document Type: Article

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