Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...

Disease name: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named after Hans Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob, two German doctors who first described the disease in the 1920s. Affected populations: CJD affects ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical presentation of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) who were suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and to ...

Prion diseases are rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders with no cure and limited treatment options. Despite their devastating effects, much about their mechanisms, transmission, and progression ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers have also demonstrated that these prions can experimentally transmit the disease to mice.

ed.ac.uk Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a zoonotic disease caused by cross-species transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy with a median age at onset of 27 years. In 1996, when ...