A case-control study of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Switzerland: analysis of potential risk factors with regard to an increased CJD incidence in the years 2001–2004

BACKGROUND: In 2001, the observed annual mortality from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in Switzerland increased from less than 1.5 to 2.6 per million inhabitants. An underlying cause could not be identified. METHODS: To analyse potential risk factors for sCJD in Switzerland, close relatives of 69 s...

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Autores principales: Ruegger, Jessica, Stoeck, Katharina, Amsler, Lorenz, Blaettler, Thomas, Zwahlen, Marcel, Aguzzi, Adriano, Glatzel, Markus, Hess, Klaus, Eckert, Tobias
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19144172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-18

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19144172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-18

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