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Barriers to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease autopsies, California |
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| Authors: | Louie Janice K Gavali Shilpa S Belay Ermias D Trevejo Rosalie Hammond Lucinda H Schonberger Lawrence B Vugia Duc J |
| Affiliation: | California Emerging Infections Program, Richmond, California, USA. jlouie@dhs.ca.gov |
| Abstract: | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) surveillance relies on autopsy and neuropathologic evaluation. The 1990-2000 CJD autopsy rate in California was 21%. Most neurologists were comfortable diagnosing CJD (83%), but few pathologists felt comfortable diagnosing CJD (35%) or performing autopsy (29%). Addressing obstacles to autopsy is necessary to improve CJD surveillance. |
| Keywords: | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD variant transmissible spongiform encephalopathy TSE prion surveillance autopsy dispatch |
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