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Epidemiological evidence of higher susceptibility to vCJD in the young

BACKGROUND: The strikingly young age of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) cases remains unexplained. Age dependent susceptibility to infection has been put forward, but differential dietary exposure to contaminated food products in the UK population according to age and sex during the bov...

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Autores principales: Boëlle, Pierre-Yves, Cesbron, Jean-Yves, Valleron, Alain-Jacques
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC514608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15304199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-4-26