Surgery linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
'Based on the monitoring records of spongiform encephalopathy in two Nordic countries, we studied the possibility of transmission of the sporadic form of CJD through general surgery,' explains Jesus de Pedro, main author of the study and head of prion monitoring in patients at the National Epidemiology Centre of the Carlos III Health Institute...