Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...
The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...