The first patient with the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease in the Netherlands;De eerste patiënt in Nederland met de nieuwe variant van de ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 149, Issue 53, 2005, Pages 2949-2954

  Jansen, C ^a   Houben, M P W A ^b   Hoff, J I ^d   Sanchez Juan, P ^c   Rozemuller, A J M ^a   Van Duijn, C M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^d Van Mesos Medisch Centrum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CATERING SERVICE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DIET; DISEASE DURATION; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEAT; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 30144435335     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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