NR AAEG
AU Akai,J.; Ishihara,O.; Higuchi,S.
TI Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Japan: an epidemiological study done in a select prefecture between 1976 and 1986.
QU Neuroepidemiology 1989; 8(1): 32-7
PT journal article
AB An epidemiological study was performed with respect to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a designated area in Japan. The subjects were observed in a small rural prefecture where the population generally remains within a limited radius throughout their lives. The patients' life-styles in each area were investigated in detail. Nine cases appeared in 11 years; 6 were definitive and 3 probable. They were all of the subacute type; there were no noteworthy sexual differences, age of onset, course and/or past histories. Three of the nine cases came from two families; the relationship between familial and isolated cases was examined. Revealed facts and time-space clustering were investigated statistically, but no indication of natural transmission was observable.
MH Aged; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*epidemiology; Female; Human; Japan; Male; Middle Age; Rural Population
AD Division of Neurology and Neuropathology, Kurihama National Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan.
SP englisch
PO Schweiz