Iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare progressive neurological disorder which is eventually fatal. Attention has recently been focused upon the iatrogenic transmission of this disease by four published reports of patients developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with the administration of human growth hormone preparations originally prepared from human cadaver pituitaries. Characterized cl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291700010965