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SUBMITTER: Diack AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5572887 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Diack Abigail B AB Boyle Aileen A Ritchie Diane D Plinston Chris C Kisielewski Dorothy D de Pedro-Cuesta Jesús J Rábano Alberto A Will Robert G RG Manson Jean C JC
Emerging infectious diseases 20170901 9
We investigated transmission characteristics of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a mother and son from Spain. Despite differences in patient age and disease manifestations, we found the same strain properties in these patients as in UK vCJD cases. A single strain of agent appears to be responsible for all vCJD cases to date. ...[more]