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Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease surveillance and patient care in the United Kingdom

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is lethal and transmissible. We assessed the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on UK CJD surveillance. We hypothesized that (i) disruptions prolonged diagnostic latency; (ii) autopsy rates declined; and (iii) COVID‐19 infection negatively affecte...

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Autores principales: Watson, Neil, Kirby, Jack, Kurudzhu, Hatice, Leitch, Margaret, MacKenzie, Janet, Smith‐Bathgate, Blaire, Smith, Colin, Summers, David, Green, Alison J. E., Pal, Suvankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9305926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34941016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ene.15228