A case-control study of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Switzerland: Analysis of potential risk factors with regard to an increased CJD incidence in the years 2001-2004

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ruegger, Jessica ^a   Stoeck, Katharina ^b,c   Amsler, Lorenz ^d,e   Blaettler, Thomas ^b,f   Zwahlen, Marcel ^g   Aguzzi, Adriano ^b   Glatzel, Markus ^b,c   Hess, Klaus ^a   Eckert, Tobias ^d,h  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^e CSL Behring AG   (Switzerland)

^f BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 60849088881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-18     Document Type: Article

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