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.
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University of Liverpool, UK Center for Tissue Engineering. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
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