High incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in rural Calabria, Italy

Lancet. 1998 Dec;352(9145):1989-90. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)61335-9.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / epidemiology*
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / ethnology
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Israel / ethnology
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Life Tables
  • Middle Aged
  • Point Mutation
  • Prions / genetics*
  • Prions / isolation & purification
  • Probability
  • Rural Population
  • Slovakia / ethnology

Substances

  • Prions