title: Surveillance of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia: update to December 2011.
abstract: The Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Registry (ANCJDR) is a Commonwealth Government-funded surveillance unit, responsible for the ascertainment of all cases of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (also known as prion diseases) in Australia. Having been in operation for 18 years, the activities of the ANCJDR have evolved and expanded over this timeframe, with the ANCJDR providing clinical, diagnostic and infection control advice and service. This update provides a review of the activities of the ANCJDR during 2011 and analysis of both prospective and retrospective (to 1970) data collected from 1993 to 31 December 2011.
authors.affiliation: Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, 5105. gmjak@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Genevieve M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Klug
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McGlade
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stehmann
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Colin L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Masters
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Collins
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D003710:Demography; D018563:Disease Notification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult