New thoughts on CJD, surgical instruments and disease transmission.
For most people, the threat of widespread transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans as a result of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has passed into the history books. But concerns about transmission of the disease during certain medical procedures still exist.
University of Liverpool, UK Center for Tissue Engineering. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D002417:Cattle; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / Q000635:transmission*; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D013525:Surgical Instruments