The Transmission Risk of Prion-like Proteins in Adenotonsillar Surgery: ‘Iatrogenic’ Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)
Bovine spongioform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) are degenerative disorders, which have occurred in several countries since 1980s. Prionlike proteins are blamed as responsible infectious agents for BSE and also for vCJD, in humans. As iatrogenic transmission by su...
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| Language: | English |
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Galenos Yayincilik
2003-06-01
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| Series: | Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology |
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http://turkarchotolaryngol.net/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/the-transmission-risk-of-prion-like-proteins-in-ad/43761
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