RI should be included among the World Health Organization's options for diagnosing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is associated with exposure to mad cow disease, according to Dr. Henriette Tschampa and colleagues at the Clinical University of Bonn, Germany.
MRI should be included among the World Health Organization's options for diagnosing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is associated with exposure to mad cow disease, according to Dr. Henriette Tschampa and colleagues at the Clinical University of Bonn, Germany.
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