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Article: Clinical Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
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- Neurology Alert
- Article date:
- February 1, 2000
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Clinical Diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) include several different disorders, each caused by different prion proteins and show relatively distinct disease patterns. Most are sporadic but some are inheritable, others can ...