A highly specific blood test for vCJD

Blood

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 452-453

  Jackson, Graham S ^a   Burk Rafel, Jesse ^a,b   Edgeworth, Julie A ^a   Sicilia, Anita ^a   Abdilahi, Sabah ^a   Korteweg, Justine ^a   Mackey, Jonathan ^a   Thomas, Claire ^a   Wang, Guosu ^a   Mead, Simon ^a,c   Collinge, John ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; STAINLESS STEEL;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PRIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84893030502     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-11-539239     Document Type: Letter

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