Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease


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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease:

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, abnormal form of a protein found in mammals, believed to cause a group of diseases known as prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare type of spongiform encephalopathy.
Hearing loss as the initial presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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