10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VCJD»
Discover the use of
vCJD in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vCJD and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Statistical Aspects of BSE and
vCJD: Models for Epidemics
, Scrapie in sheep and nvCJD in humans) are also highlighted. The book concentrates on presenting an exposition of the "state-of-the-art" rather than introductory material on the mathematical/statistical modeling of infectious diseases.
C A Donnelly, N M Ferguson, 1999
2
Modern Food Microbiology
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Diseases (CJD, vCJD) Since humans are susceptible to the
prions that cause CJD, the early concern was whether humans
couldcontractBSEfromcattle.InMarch1996,anewvariantofCJD(nvCJD,vCJD)
wasreportedinthe United ...
James M. Jay, Martin J. Loessner, David A. Golden, 2005
3
Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopathies
The florid plaque is a neuropathological hallmark of vCJD; these structures are
present in a widespread distribution in the grey matter of cerebral and cerebellar
cortex. Florid plaques have not been reported in cases of sCJD, and there seems
...
4
Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology
Figure 39.6 MRI signs in human prion disease: pulvinar sign in vCJD. Normal
tissue vCJD tissue Brain Brain Tonsil Tonsil Figure 39.7 Tonsil biopsy in vCJD.
thought to precede neuro-invasion, and indeed has been detected in archived ...
Arie J. Zuckerman, Jangu E. Banatvala, Paul Griffiths, 2009
5
Escourolle and Poirier's Manual of Basic Neuropathology
the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle seemed likely.
Since then, just over 200 patients with this disease, subsequently known as
variant CJD (vCJD), have been identified. Clinically, there is a relatively young
age ...
Frangoise Gray, Charles Duyckaerts, Umberto De Girolami, 2013
The widespread tissue distribution of PrPSc and infectivity in vCJD has given rise
to concerns that infectivity might also be present in blood. Studies in sheep
infected with BSE have demonstrated transmission of infection by blood
transfusion ...
7
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: New Research
V. Psychiatric Features Of New Variant Creutzfeldt-jakob Disease The clinical
features of vCJD have been described in several articles, in particular in the
reports by the scientists of the National Monitoring Unit for CJD in the United
Kingdom ...
8
Bottom Line Medicine: A Layman's Guide to Evidence-Based ...
of the world's blood supply because they feared there may be many “subclinical
vCJD carriers” who may donate infected blood to others.1 There are even calls to
prevent past blood recipients from donating blood to others even if this does ...
9
Public health blood supply generally adequate despite new ...
New vCJD Donor Exclusions Lower Potential Risk but Also Reduce the Number
of Eligible Donors Because so little is known about the etiology of vCJD,
estimates of the public health benefits from blood donor exclusions related to
vCJD are ...
10
Neurodegeneration: The Molecular Pathology of Dementia and ...
The significant peripheral pathogenesis in vCJD (see below) raised concerns
that there might be an increased risk of secondary transmission of this condition
from person to person and there is now evidence of transmission of vCJD
through ...
Dennis Dickson, Roy O. Weller, 2011
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VCJD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
vCJD is used in the context of the following news items.
Researchers have reported important evidence of a genetic …
Acquired forms of disease such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) or kuru result from external exposure to abnormal prion proteins. Kuru is a condition ... «PHG Foundation, Jun 15»
Mad Cow Disease Still Menaces UK Blood Supply
The worry is that the disorder, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has left an unknown mark on the U.K. blood supply, and that a hidden population of ... «National Geographic, Feb 15»
Portsmouth mum's anger as government says no to vCJD probe
Ms Lord's son went blind, suffered dementia and become quadriplegic as a result of being infected with vCJD, which is caused by eating beef infected by bovine ... «Portsmouth News, Nov 14»
A simple test could identify people with vCJD
vCJD belongs to a rare but fatal group of prion diseases and first appeared in people who had eaten meat products contaminated with bovine spongiform ... «The Conversation, Aug 14»
'Casual attitude' to vCJD warning
The Science and Technology Committee said the low incidence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was being "used as justification for inaction". «BBC News, Jul 14»
New Blood Test Screens for Mad Cow Disease
Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), better known as the human form of “mad cow disease,” is a degenerative brain disorder caused by eating meat from ... «Healthline, Jun 14»
Confirmed variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) case in Texas
Laboratory tests have confirmed a diagnosis of variant CJD (a fatal brain disorder) in a patient who recently died in Texas. The confirmation was made when ... «Barfblog, Jun 14»
New CJD Tests Validated
Further evidence validating tests for both sporadic or classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD) has been reported in 2 new studies, both ... «Medscape, Mar 14»
Blood test good enough to screen for vCJD
A blood test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is sufficiently reliable to be used to screen at-risk populations for the fatal neurological disease, shows ... «OnMedica, Mar 14»
Blood donation vCJD fears prompt inquiry
Since the link between vCJD and a disease called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle was discovered in 1996, strict controls have prevented ... «BBC News, Dec 13»
