Factors determining the pattern of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) epidemic in the UK.

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Published in Proc Biol Sci on April 07, 2003

Authors

Azra C Ghani1, Neil M Ferguson, Christl A Donnelly, Roy M Anderson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK. a.ghani@imperial.ac.uk

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