Origins of the Creutzfeldt and Jakob concept |
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Authors: | Duckett S Stern J |
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Affiliation: | Jefferson Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |
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Abstract: | A review of the publications of Hans Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob pertaining to the concept which bears their name (CJD) reveals that they described a neuropathological syndrome and were opposed to its classification as a neurological disease. The evidence on which Creutzfeldt and Jakob based their view is reevaluated, and studies by other workers are cited in which a range of environmental and genetic factors generated the CJ syndrome, challenging the proposition that CJD is a disease with a single cause. |
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