Thursday, 6 March 2014

Blood Test Screens Fatal Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

A blood test was accurate in the screening of infection with an agent that was responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal neurological disease. Author: Graham S. Jackson, Ph.D., of the University College of London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, and colleagues. Background: vCJD is a fatal degenerative brain disorder thought to be caused by a misfolded protein (prion) in the brain and contracted most commonly through eating infected beef. ...




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