Affiliations

• ¹ Neuromedizinisches Ambulanzzentrum, State Neuropsychiatric Hospital Wagner-Jauregg, Medical School, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria.
• ² Department of Neurology, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria.
• ³ Laboratory of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Neuropathology, State Neuropsychiatric Hospital Wagner-Jauregg, Medical School, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria.
• ⁴ Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna and Austrian Reference Centre for Human Prion Diseases, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵ Institute of Radiology, State Neuropsychiatric Hospital Wagner-Jauregg, Medical School, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Linz, Austria.
• ⁶ Department of Neurology, SMZ-Ost Donauspital, Karl Landsteiner Institute for Neuroimmunological and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁷ Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
• ⁸ National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.