Acceleration of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease progression by COVID requires evidence from appropriately designed studies

Abstract The aim of this letter to the editor is to discuss the influence of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the progression of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD). A 73-year-old male was diagnosed with sCJD based on the clinical presentation, cerebral MRI, FDG–PET, and elevated 14-3-3 in cerebrospina...

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Main Author: Josef Finsterer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-11-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41983-023-00762-z