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Secondary transmissons of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) by blood transfusion have raised serious concerns about disease transmissioon by blood components and tissue products. This multi-authored book byy international and national experts reprents a state of the art review of the basic science and pathogenesis of iatrogenically transmitted prion disease. Atimely resource, it examines the issues of blood and tissue infectivity and screening test development; a discussion of risk assessment and management completes the book. Topics of Interest: * Molecular poathology of prion diseases * Pathogenesis of peripherally trasmitted TSEs * Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in animals and humans * Studies on peripheral blood infectivity and transmission * Development and implementation of diagnostic assays * Component processing * Plasma product manufacturing * Cell, tissue and organ transplantation * Prophylactic and therapeutic agents * Risk assessment and policy development ... Read more

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder that is ultimately fatal. It is the most common of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases (also known as prion diseases) are caused by a unique type of infectious agent called prions, an abnormally structured form of a protein found in the brain. Other prion diseases include Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru in humans, as well as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie in animals. This book presents the latest research in this field. ... Read more

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This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to creutzfeldt-jakob disease, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on creutzfeldt-jakob disease. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 3. Studies on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Chapter 4. Patents on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Chapter 5. Books on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Chapter 6. Multimedia on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease; Chapter 7. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix B. Your Rights and Insurance; Appendix C. More on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: corticostriatal-spinal degeneration, Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome, Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease, Jakob's Disease, spastic pseudosclerosis, Subacute Spongiform Encephalopathy, transmissible virus dementia. ... Read more

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In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: "The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading."Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so. ... Read more

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Traces the history, current issues, and future of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare genetic disorder that effects the brain and is part of the same group of illnesses as "mad cow disease." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases on February 1, 2009. The length of the article is 5031 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Medical procedures and risk for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Japan, 1999-2008.(RESEARCH)
Author: Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2009
Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
Volume: 15Issue: 2Page: 265(7)

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The article is excerpted fromGale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health.
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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4176 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On the question of sporadic or atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.(PERSPECTIVE)
Author: Paul Brown
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12Issue: 12Page: 1816(6)

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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The transfusion transmission of hepatitis C and HIV to thousands of Canadian blood recipients was one of this country's largest public health catastrophes. In response to this crisis, and in an effort to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again, the Canadian blood system has undergone substantial reform. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) disease was the first infectious threat faced by the blood system since undergoing reform. The response at the time to this risk provides insights into the Canadian blood system's new approach to infectious threats. Our analysis of the decision-making concerning vCJD identifies two dominant themes characterizing the new blood system's approach to safety:(1)the adoption of a precautionary approach to new risks which involves taking action in advance of definitive evidence, and (2)risk aversion amongst policy makers, which has contributed to the adoption of safety measures with comparatively high cost-effectiveness ratios.Overall the principles governing the new blood system have contributed to the system both providing protection against emerging infectious risks and regaining the confidence of the public and recipients. However, the current set of policy factors will likely contribute to increasingly risk-averse policy making that will contribute to continued increases in the cost of the blood system. The challenge the blood system now faces is to find the appropriate balance between maximizing safety and ensuring the system remains affordable. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3001 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Source of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease outside United Kingdom.(RESEARCH)
Author: Pascual Sanchez-Juan
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13Issue: 8Page: 1166(4)

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This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Southern Medical Association on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Early diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by diffusion-weighted MRI.(Section on Internal Medicine)
Author: Jasmin Jerez-Marte
Publication: Southern Medical Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Southern Medical Association
Volume: 97Issue: 10Page: S20(2)

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Chapters: Prion, Fatal familial insomnia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, Chronic wasting disease, Kuru, Scrapie, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, Feline spongiform encephalopathy, Transmissible mink encephalopathy,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 82. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A proteinaceous infectious particle, or prion, (pronounced ( listen)) is an infectious agent composed primarily of protein. The word prion, coined in 1982 by Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, is a portmanteau derived from the words protein and infection. Prions are the cause of a number of diseases in a variety of mammals, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease") in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. In general usage, prion refers to the theoretical unit of infection. All known prion diseases affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue and all are currently untreatable and universally fatal. Prions propagate by transmitting a mis-folded protein state: so as with viruses the protein cannot replicate by itself. Instead, when a prion enters a healthy organism the prion form of a protein induces pre-existing normal forms of the protein to convert into the rogue form. Since the new prions can then go on to convert more proteins themselves, this triggers a chain reaction that produces large amounts of the prion form. All known prions induce the formation of an amyloid fold, in which the protein polymerises into an aggregate consisting of tightly packed beta sheets. Amyloid aggregates are fibrils, growing at their ends, and replicating when breakage causes two growing ends to become four growing ends. The incubation period of prion diseases is determined by the exponential g...http://booksllc.net/?id=23048 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, published by American Association of Neuroscience Nurses on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4192 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The fundamentals of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Author: Anna Budd Fontenot
Publication: Journal of Neuroscience Nursing (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
Volume: 35Issue: 6Page: 327(5)

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Title: Rare brain disorder suspected in death.(Health)(Fatal illness: Doctors say Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may have killed Jerry Ray Collins.)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: July 31, 2002
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: D1

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This digital document is an article from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by U.S. Government Printing Office on October 24, 2008. The length of the article is 2128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Update: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with cadaveric dura mater grafts--Japan, 1978-2008.
Author: Y. Nakamura
Publication: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Newsletter)
Date: October 24, 2008
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Volume: 57Issue: 42Page: 1152(3)

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Title: UK blood service warns vCJD test could cut donations.(Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)(Brief Article)
Publication: Transplant News (Newsletter)
Date: July 27, 2001
Publisher: Transplant Communications, Inc.
Volume: 11Issue: 14Page: NA

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Title: vCJD risk from plasma very small.(NEWS FROM THE FDA)(variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)(Brief article)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 42Issue: 14Page: 8(1)

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