Variant CJD: Where has it gone, or has it?

Practical Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 250-251

  Will, Bob ^a  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; PRION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPIDEMICS; GENETIC VARIATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PRIONS;

EID: 77957713851     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: 14747766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.223693     Document Type: Editorial

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