作者: Richard Knight
DOI: 10.1159/000031052
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摘要: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been transmitted in the laboratory and also by iatrogenic accident. However, research failed to find evidence that its most common form (sporadic CJD) is a natural infection and, particular, there causal link with scrapie. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) probably resulted from scrapie cattle food. In wake of BSE epidemic, novel clinico-pathological CJD recognized: new variant (nvCJD). This paper reviews relationship between nvCJD presents accumulated supporting view contamination human