Source of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease outside United Kingdom

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1166-1169

  Sanchez Juan, Pascual ^a,b   Cousens, Simon N ^c   Will, Robert G ^d   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CANADA; FRANCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IRELAND; ITALY; JAPAN; NETHERLANDS; PORTUGAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SPAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE;

EID: 34548407368     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1308.070178     Document Type: Article

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