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Insights into the Management of Emerging Infections: Regulating Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Transfusion Risk in the UK and the US
BACKGROUND: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a human prion disease caused by infection with the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. After the recognition of vCJD in the UK in 1996, many nations implemented policies intended to reduce the hypothetical risk of transfusion transmissio...
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Public Library of Science
2006
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1621089/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17076547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030342 |