Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Diagnosed 7.5 Years after Occupational Exposure

N Engl J Med. 2020 Jul 2;383(1):83-85. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2000687.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Chemistry
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / etiology*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laboratory Personnel
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Methionine / genetics
  • Mice
  • Mice, Transgenic
  • Occupational Exposure / adverse effects*
  • Occupational Injuries / complications*
  • Prion Proteins / analysis*
  • Prion Proteins / blood
  • Prion Proteins / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Wounds, Stab / complications*

Substances

  • Prion Proteins
  • Methionine