Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States

Neurology. 2003 Jan 28;60(2):176-81. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000036913.87823.d6.

Authors

Ermias D Belay¹, Ryan A Maddox, Pierluigi Gambetti, Lawrence B Schonberger

Affiliation

¹ Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.

PMID: 12557850
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000036913.87823.d6

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adult
Age Factors
Animals
Blood Donors / legislation & jurisprudence
Cattle
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / prevention & control
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / epidemiology*
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / prevention & control
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission
Deer
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / epidemiology
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / prevention & control
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / transmission
Humans
Middle Aged
Population Surveillance
Risk
Risk Assessment
Travel / legislation & jurisprudence
United Kingdom / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology
Wasting Disease, Chronic / epidemiology
Wasting Disease, Chronic / prevention & control
Wasting Disease, Chronic / transmission