Open AccessDevelopments in variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease
Author(s) -
N Gill
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.05.09.00008-en
Subject(s) - disease , incidence (geometry) , medicine , virology , pediatrics , pathology , mathematics , geometry
The announcement on 17 July 2000 that the rate of increase in the incidence of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom (UK) had reached statistical significance makes the current issue of Eurosurveillance particularly timely. A clus