Ten-year mortality from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Cyprus.

نویسندگان

  • S Papacostas
  • A Malikides
  • M Petsa
  • T Kyriakides
چکیده

We report the mortality from sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Cyprus for a 10-year surveillance period (1995-2004). In that time, 5 cases were identified out of a population of 749,000, giving an incidence of 0.7 cases per million population per year. Our sporadic incidence matches that expected according to global epidemiological surveillance. No cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were found but 1 familial case was diagnosed.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit

دوره 14 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008