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Euro Surveill. 1996 Jun;1(6):42-45. doi: 10.2807/esm.01.06.00158-en.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: results of an inquiry in the fifteen Member States of the European Union.

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

B.C. Merkel, P.W.J Peters, L Chambaud

PMID: 12631834 DOI: 10.2807/esm.01.06.00158-en

Abstract

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) was first described in 1920-1921. CJD is a rare disease with a reported incidence of 0.5 to 1 case per million people in Europe. This fatal dementia belongs to the category of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)

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