Increased incidence of genetic human prion disease in Hungary

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1666-1669

  Kovacs G G ^a   Laszlo L ^b   Bakos, A ^c   Minarovits J ^c   Bishop, M T ^d   Strobel T ^e   Vajna, B ^b   Mitrova, E ^f   Majtenyi K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f SLOVAK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNGARY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 28044458525     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000184513.95290.80     Document Type: Article

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