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352. Towards Earlier Diagnosis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs): A Case Series, Including One Associated With Squirrel Brain Consumption

BACKGROUND: TSEs present diagnostic and infection control (IC) challenges. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is the most common human TSE, occurring in 1–2/million/year in the United States, but other zoonotic factors or transmissions remain incompletely understood. Prompted by the occurrence of four...

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Autores principales: Chen, Tara, Hanna, John, Eckert-Davis, Laura, Giles, Julie, Vore, Kelly, Laguio-Vila, Maryrose, Lesho, Emil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6255529/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.363