PrP Amyloid Plaques in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease of Short Duration: Immunohistochemical Studies of 5 Cases from Poland

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Journal Eur J Epidemiol

Specialty Public Health

Date 1991 Sep 1

PMID 1684757

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Authors

P P Liberski

H Kwiecinski

M Barcikowska

B Mirecka

J Kulczycki

E Kida

P Brown

D C Gajdusek

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Abstract

We report here PrP-immunohistochemistry performed on brains from CJD cases from Poland. Only one of five definitive CJD cases exhibited typical PrP-immunoreactive kuru-like plaques and this was case of a short duration. We thus confirm the low frequency of PrP plaques in CJD of Eastern and Central European origin.

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