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. 1975 Mar;38(3):210-3.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.38.3.210.

Epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England and Wales

W B Matthews

Epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England and Wales

W B Matthews. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1975 Mar.

Abstract

Some aspects of the epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England and Wales in the decade 1964-73 were studied with the object of detecting evidence of natural transmission of this slow virus encephalopathy. Some geographical clustering and possibility of contact between cases was found.

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