creutzfeldt-jakob disease in English

noun
1
a fatal degenerative disease affecting nerve cells in the brain, causing mental, physical, and sensory disturbances such as dementia and seizures. It is believed to be caused by prions and hence to be related to BSE and other spongiform encephalopathies such as kuru and scrapie.

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1. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

2. She has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

3. Investigations showed hydrocephalus and surgery sequelae on MRI, and electroencephalography changes not typical for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

4. Abnormal prion protein deposits with high seeding activities in the skeletal muscle, femoral nerve, and scalp of an Autopsied case of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

5. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Associated with Cadaveric Dura Mater Grafts -- Japan, January 1979-May 1996 MMWR 46(45);1066-1069 Publication date: 11/14/1997

6. Some subviral particles also cause disease: the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which include Kuru, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), are caused by prions, hepatitis D is due to a satellite virus.

7. Stanley Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his work in proposing an explanation for the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.