Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Germany: a prospective 12-year surveillance
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Germany: a prospective 12-year surveillance.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder with a worldwide incidence of 1-1.5 per million. As in other countries, a CJD surveillance unit with a clinical and neuropathological approach was established in Goettingen (Germany) in 1993. Here we report the epidemiological data from a prospective 12-year surveillance. Since 1993, there has been an increasing inci...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm063