Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Slovenia from 1985 to 2003

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 116, Issue 15-16, 2004, Pages 524-529

  Popović, Mara ^a,e   Glavač, Damjan ^a   Smerkolj, Sava ^a   Švigelj, Viktor ^b   Kalan, Gregor ^c   Galvani, Vesna ^d   Černilec, Maja ^d   Bresjanac, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c General Hospital Jesenice   (Slovenia)

^d BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTRE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^e INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Codon 129; Prion; Prion protein gene (PRNP); Sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (sCJD)

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOVENIA;

EID: 4444338031     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03217705     Document Type: Article

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