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MALADIE CREUTZFELDT-JACOB [1 record]

Record 1 2010-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Paramedical Staff
DEF

A notional neurological disease resembling BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) that affects human beings.

CONT

Mad cow disease belongs to a group of similar but distinct neurological disease that includes scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in humans, ... there is no treatment for this fatal disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Personnel para-médical
OBS

variante humaine de l'ESB : attesté sur 40 sites Web français.

Key term(s)
  • maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jacob

Spanish

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