Ten-year mortality from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Cyprus

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 715-719

  Papacostas, Savvas ^a   Malikides, A ^b   Petsa, M ^c   Kyriakides, T ^a  

^a CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^b LIMASSOL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

^c NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN 14 3 3;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYPRUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; REFUGEE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; BIOPSY; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; CYPRUS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 48249103985     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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