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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Agent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

David M. Taylor
David M. Taylor*
Affiliation:
AFRC & MRC Neuropathogenesis Unit Edinburgh, Scotland
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 12 , December 1988 , pp. 526
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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