New variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease

D Dormont

doi:10.2807/esm.05.09.00010-en

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New variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
D Dormont¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Service de Neurovirologie, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

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Citation style for this article: Dormont D. New variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Euro Surveill. 2000;5(9):pii=10. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.05.09.00010-en

Abstract

Work on experimental pathology carried out for over 10 years indicates that the biological properties of the BSE agent, responsible for the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), are particular. In contrast to the situation observed in the other