Open Access<p>Incidence of and Mortality Due to Human Prion Diseases in Taiwan: A Prospective 20-Year Nationwide Surveillance Study from 1998 to 2017</p>
Author(s) -
Yu Sun,
ChihChing Liu,
Ling-Yun Fan,
Chung-Te Huang,
Ta Fu Chen,
Chien-Jung Lu,
WanYuo Guo,
Yang-Chyuan Chang,
MingJang Chiu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s274093
Subject(s) - medicine , prnp , incidence (geometry) , disease , outbreak , epidemiology , pediatrics , mortality rate , pathology , prion protein , physics , optics
Epidemiologic studies of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) have been undertaken worldwide since the new variant CJD outbreak in 1996 in the United Kingdom. A nationwide report system, the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (CJDSU), directed by the Centers for Disease Control of Taiwan, was established in 1997 to identify human prion diseases.