Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: an example of the interplay between ancient genes and modern medicine.

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Published in Neurology on February 01, 1994

Authors

P Brown1, L Cervenáková, L G Goldfarb, W R McCombie, R Rubenstein, R G Will, M Pocchiari, J F Martinez-Lage, C Scalici, C Masullo

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of CNS Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.

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