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Neurodegeneration
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Intensity of human prion disease surveillance predicts observed disease incidence

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  • Genevieve M J A Klug Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Handan Wand The Kirby Institute (formerly National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research), University of New South Wales, Coogee, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marion Simpson Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alison Boyd Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Matthew Law The Kirby Institute (formerly National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research), University of New South Wales, Coogee, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Colin L Masters Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Radoslav Matěj National Reference Laboratory for Diagnostics of Human Prion Diseases, Thomayer Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rachel Howley CJD Surveillance Unit, Department of Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Farrell CJD Surveillance Unit, Department of Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Maren Breithaupt Dementia Research Unit, Department of Neurology, National Reference Center for TSE, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Inga Zerr Dementia Research Unit, Department of Neurology, National Reference Center for TSE, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cornelia van Duijn Dutch National Prion Disease Registry, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carla Ibrahim-Verbaas Dutch National Prion Disease Registry, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Neurology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jan Mackenzie National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robert G Will National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research and Surveillance Unit, Western General Hospital, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jean-Philippe Brandel Cellule Nationale de référence des maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Cedex, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Annick Alperovitch Cellule Nationale de référence des maladies de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, Cedex, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Herbert Budka Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna and Austrian Reference Center for Human Prion diseases, Vienna, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gabor G Kovacs Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna and Austrian Reference Center for Human Prion diseases, Vienna, Austria Semmelweis University Neuropathology and Prion Disease Reference Center, Budapest, Hungary PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gerard H Jansen Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Coulthard Canadian CJD Surveillance System and Prion Diseases Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steven J Collins Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Genevieve M Klug or Professor Steven J Collins, Australian National Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia; gmjak{at}unimelb.edu.au or stevenjc{at}unimelb.edu.au
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Klug GMJA, Wand H, Simpson M, et al
Intensity of human prion disease surveillance predicts observed disease incidence
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2013;84:1372-1377.

Publication history

  • Received December 19, 2012
  • Revised May 16, 2013
  • Accepted July 28, 2013
  • First published August 21, 2013.
Online issue publication 
November 13, 2013

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