Clinical presentation and pre-mortem diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with...
Clinical presentation and pre-mortem diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with blood transfusion: a case report
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England: Elsevier Ltd
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English
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Concerns have been raised that variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) might be transmissible by blood transfusion. Two cases of prion infection in a group of known recipients of transfusion from donors who subsequently developed vCJD were identified post-mortem and reported in 2004. Another patient from this at-risk group developed neurological s...
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Clinical presentation and pre-mortem diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with blood transfusion: a case report
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68231206
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68231206
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0140-6736
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1474-547X
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10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69835-8
