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Prion infectivity in the spleen of a PRNP heterozygous individual with subclinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [PDF]

, 2013
Blood transfusion has been identified as a source of human-to-human transmission of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Three cases of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease have been identified following red cell transfusions from donors who subsequently ...
Abigail B. Diack, Bishop, Brown, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Clarke, Diack, Diane L. Ritchie, Fraser, Garske, Head, Hill, Hilton, HPA, James W. Ironside, Jean C. Manson, Llewelyn, Matthew T. Bishop, Peden, Pocchiari, Prusiner, Ritchie, Robert G. Will, Wadsworth, Will, Wroe   +26 more
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CSF lactate dehydrogenase activity in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease exceeds that in other dementias [PDF]

, 2004
The diagnosis of Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease (CJD) is still made by exclusion of other dementias. We now evaluated lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) as a possible additional diagnostic tool. CSF LDH levels of patients with CJD (
Cepek, L., Kretzschmar, H. A., Niedmann, P., Otto, M., Poser, S., Schmidt, H., Schroter, A.   +6 more
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Cross infection control measures and the treatment of patients at risk of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in UK general dental practice [PDF]

, 2001
AIMS: To determine the suitability of key infection control measures currently employed in UK dental practice for delivery of dental care to patients at risk of prion diseases.
A Smith, AF Hill, AF Hill, C P Sweeney, CM Van Duijn, DH Adams, DM Taylor, F Blanquet-Gossard, H Ashraf, IF Laurenson, J Bagg, K Arakawa, K M Roy, L Ingrosso, ME Bruce, R Dobson, RG Will, RG Will, RI Carp, RT Johnson, S Collins, T Sharp, Z Davanipour   +22 more
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Clinical Features of Rapidly Progressive Alzheimer's Disease [PDF]

, 2010
Objective: To characterize clinical features, CSF biomarkers and genetic polymorphisms of patients suffering from a rapidly progressing subtype of Alzheimer's dementia (rpAD).
Ahsen, Nico von, Krack, Lennart, Kretzschmar, Hans, Meissner, Bettina, Redyk, Katharina, Roeber, Sigrun, Schmidt, Christian, Zerr, Inga   +7 more
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Genome-wide association study of behavioural and psychiatric features in human prion disease. [PDF]

, 2015
Prion diseases are rare neurodegenerative conditions causing highly variable clinical syndromes, which often include prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Carswell, C, Collinge, J, Lowe, J, Lukic, A, MacKay, A, Mead, S, Porter, MC, Rudge, P, Thompson, AG, Uphill, J   +9 more
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Related or not? Development of spontaneous Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in a patient with chronic, well-controlled HIV: A case report and review of the literature

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2016
Background: We report a novel case of a rare disease: spontaneous Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in a patient with well-controlled HIV. We explore the relationship between spontaneous Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and HIV. Case report: A 66-year-old man with long-
M-Alain Babi, Bryan D Kraft, Sweta Sengupta, Haley Peterson, Ryan Orgel, Zachary Wegermann, Njira L Lugogo, Matthew W Luedke   +7 more
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Prion diseases are efficiently transmitted by blood transfusion in sheep [PDF]

, 2008
The emergence of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, following on from the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, led to concerns about the potential risk of iatrogenic transmission of disease by blood transfusion and the introduction of costly ...
Andréoletti, Angela Chong, Bishop, Brown, Castilla, Clarke, Fiona Houston, Goldmann, Goldmann, Goldmann, González, González, Gregori, Gregori, Hadlow, Hewitt, Hill, Hilton, Houston, Houston, Hunter, Ironside, James Foster, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Kirby, Llewelyn, Lorenzo González, Martin Jeffrey, Mead, Nora Hunter, O'Rourke, Peden, Sandra McCutcheon, Saá, Schreuder, Silvia Sisó, Sisó, Valleron, van Keulen, Wilfred Goldmann, Will, Wroe   +43 more
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Follow-up investigations of tau protein and S-100B levels in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [PDF]

, 2005
Background: S-100B and tau protein have a high differential diagnostic potential for the diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). So far there has been only limited information available about the dynamics of these parameters in the cerebrospinal ...
Barbara Ciesielczyk, Birgitt Wiese, Brit Mollenhauer, Green AJ, Hans A. Kretzschmar, Hulstaert F, Inga Zerr, Jens Wiltfang, Kretzschmar HA, Lukas Cepek, Markus Otto, Mirko Bibl, Otto M, Otto M, Petra Steinacker, Sigrid Poser, Steinhoff BJ, Walter Schulz-Schaeffer, Will RG   +18 more
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No Adaptation of the Prion Strain in a Heterozygous Case of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
We investigated a clinical case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in a person heterozygous for methionine/valine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene and identified the same strain properties in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in methionine ...
Aileen Boyle, Chris Plinston, Fraser Laing, Graeme Mackenzie, Robert G. Will, Jean C. Manson, Abigail B. Diack   +6 more
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The controversial Third Reich history of Hans Creutzfeldt: was he a supporter or just another adept of the “hand washing policy”? [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2021
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy whose initial description is associated with two German authors, Alfons Maria Jakob and Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt.
Paulo Eduardo Mestrinelli CARRILHO, Ricardo NITRINI   +1 more
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