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Correspondence
Screening for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  1. D A Hilton1,
  2. J W Ironside2
  1. 1Department of Histopathology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK
  2. 2CJD Surveillance Centre, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr D Hilton Department of Neuropathology, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK; 
 david.hilton{at}phnt.swest.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.74.6.828

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