Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and risk of blood transfusion in the United Kingdom
✍ Scribed by Anna M. Molesworth; Jan Mackenzie; Dawn Everington; Richard S.G. Knight; Robert G. Will
- Book ID
- 109146494
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 51 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0372-1248
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Studies in experimental animals and case-reports of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) by blood transfusion or by albumin products have raised the possibility that CJD may be transmitted by transfusion. The risk of transmission of CJD by transfusion remains theoretical, since no confirm