Colorado surveillance program for chronic wasting disease transmission to humans: Lessons from 2 highly suspicious but negative cases

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 439-441

  Anderson, C Alan ^a,b,e   Bosque, Patrick ^a,c   Filley, Christopher M ^a,b   Arciniegas, David B ^a,b   Kleinschmidt DeMasters, B K ^a   Pape, W John ^d   Tyler, Kenneth L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COLORADO; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

EID: 33947204421     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.3.439     Document Type: Article

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