Danger of accidental person-to-person transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by surgery

Lancet. 1977 Feb 26;1(8009):478-9. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(77)91958-4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Brain / microbiology
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / microbiology
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission*
  • Drug Resistance, Microbial
  • Electrodes, Implanted*
  • Electroencephalography / adverse effects*
  • Ethanol / pharmacology
  • Female
  • Formaldehyde / pharmacology
  • Haplorhini
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Stereotaxic Techniques
  • Sterilization
  • Viruses, Unclassified*

Substances

  • Formaldehyde
  • Ethanol