Clinical presentation and pre-mortem diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with blood transfusion: a case report.

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Published in Lancet on December 09, 2006

Authors

Stephen J Wroe1, Suvankar Pal, Durrenajaf Siddique, Harpreet Hyare, Rebecca Macfarlane, Susan Joiner, Jacqueline M Linehan, Sebastian Brandner, Jonathan D F Wadsworth, Patricia Hewitt, John Collinge

Author Affiliations

1: National Prion Clinic, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.

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