Risk Assessment of Transmission of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Endodontic Practice in Absence of Adequate Prion Inactivation

BACKGROUND: Experimental results evidenced the infectious potential of the dental pulp of animals infected with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). This route of iatrogenic transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) may exist in humans via reused endodontic instruments if...

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Autores principales: Bourvis, Nadège, Boelle, Pierre-Yves, Cesbron, Jean-Yves, Valleron, Alain-Jacques
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2129113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18159228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001330

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