Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a summary of current scientific knowledge in relation to public health

MB Coulthart, NR Cashman - CMAJ, 2001 - Can Med Assoc
THE PRION DISEASES POSE UNIQUE SCIENTIFIC, medical, veterinary and regulatory
challenges. Here, we summarize current information bearing on the natural history …

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

HJT Ward, MW Head, RG Will… - Clinics in laboratory …, 2003 - labmed.theclinics.com
Prion diseases have been the subject of intense scientific interest and debate for many
years, but the advent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt …

The spectrum of safety: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom

JW Ironside - Seminars in hematology, 2003 - Elsevier
Beginning in the mid 1980s, an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was
seen among cattle in the United Kingdom. The cause was recognized as a prion agent …

Prion diseases: current understanding of epidemiology and pathogenesis, and therapeutic advances

M Caramelli, G Ru, P Acutis, G Forloni - CNS drugs, 2006 - Springer
The bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) epidemic, along with the related threat to
human health posed by the transmission of the BSE agent to humans, has highlighted the …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular epidemiology of variant CJD

GA Mackay, RSG Knight, JW Ironside - International journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emergence of the novel prion diseases bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and,
subsequently, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in epidemic forms has attracted …

The risk of accidental transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: identification of emerging issues

I Ramasamy - Public Health, 2004 - Elsevier
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), thought to be caused by prions, are
fatal neurodegenerative disorders of humans and animals. Despite their rarity, human prion …

[PDF][PDF] The epidemics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: current status and future prospects

PG Smith - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003 - SciELO Public Health
The large epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom has
been in decline since 1992, but has spread to other countries. The extensive control …

[HTML][HTML] Variant CJD: Reflections a Quarter of a Century on

DL Ritchie, AH Peden, MA Barria - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Twenty-five years has now passed since variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first
described in the United Kingdom (UK). Early epidemiological, neuropathological and …

New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy

LB Schonberger - Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 1998 - Elsevier
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
in cattle are invariably fatal, subacute degenerative diseases of the brain that are classified …

New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: the risk of transmission by blood transfusion

ML Turner, JW Ironside - Blood Reviews, 1998 - Elsevier
New-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) was first described in the UK in 1996 and is
thought to be related to the consumption of cattle suffering from bovine spongiform …