Surveillance of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in the United Kingdom.
By the end of May 2000, 54 definite cases and 13 probable cases of vCJD had been notified in the United Kingdom by the National CJD Surveillance Unit set up in 1990. All definite cases for whom data are available are methionine homozygous at codon 129 of
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