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Investigation of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Human Prion Diseases with Tonsil Biopsy Samples
Lancet 353:183-189,163, Hill,A.F.,et al, 1999
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Article Abstract
We found that if, in the appropriate clinical context, a tonsil biopsy sample was positive for PrPSc, variant CJD could be diagnosed, which obviates the need for a brain biopsy sample to be taken. Our results also show that variant CJD has a different pathogenesis to sporadic CJD.
 
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