Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Austria: An autopsy-controlled study

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-221

  Gelpi, Ellen ^a   Heinzl, Harald ^b   Höftberger, Romana ^a   Unterberger, Ursula ^a   Ströbel, Thomas ^a   Voigtländer, Till ^a   Drobna, Edita ^a   Jarius, Christa ^a   Lang, Susanna ^b   Waldhör, Thomas ^b   Bernheimer, Hanno ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

14 3 3 protein; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion protein; PRNP; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MORTALITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRION DISEASE; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 45749093810     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126915     Document Type: Article

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