title: [Characteristics of various types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
abstract: The author presents main types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with short description of their ethiopathogenesis, clinical symptomatology, epidemiology and diagnostic criteria. Relevancy of currently applied laboratorial methods in diagnosis of CJD is discussed.
authors.affiliation: I Klinika Neurologiczna Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kulczycki
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged