Abstract
During a 4-month period we encountered three patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). All lived in a limited area near Fukuoka City in Japan. Such a significantly close spatial and temporal clustering of cases suggests exposure to a common CJD infectious agent. Except for dental-related treatments, there were no evident causative agents common to these three patients.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Aged
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Atrophy
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Brain / pathology
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Cluster Analysis
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / diagnosis
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / epidemiology*
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / pathology
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Cross-Sectional Studies
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Female
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Humans
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Incidence
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Japan / epidemiology
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Neurologic Examination
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PrPSc Proteins
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Prions / analysis