TY - JOUR
T1 - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia, update to December 2013
AU - Klug, Genevieve M.
AU - Boyd, Alison
AU - Sarros, Shannon
AU - Stehmann, Christiane
AU - Simpson, Marion
AU - McLean, Catriona A.
AU - Masters, Collin L.
AU - Collins, Stephen J.
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PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - Nation-wide surveillance of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, based at the University of Melbourne. Surveillance has been undertaken since 1993. Over this dynamic period in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy research and understanding, the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirements, the emergence of new disease subtypes, improvements in diagnostic capabilities and the overall heightened awareness and understanding of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the health care setting. In 2013, routine surveillance continued and this brief report provides an update of the surveillance data collected by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry prospectively from 1993 to December 2013, and retrospectively to 1970. The report highlights the recent multi-national collaborative study published that has verified the correlation between surveillance intensity and reported disease incidence.
AB - Nation-wide surveillance of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, based at the University of Melbourne. Surveillance has been undertaken since 1993. Over this dynamic period in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy research and understanding, the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirements, the emergence of new disease subtypes, improvements in diagnostic capabilities and the overall heightened awareness and understanding of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the health care setting. In 2013, routine surveillance continued and this brief report provides an update of the surveillance data collected by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry prospectively from 1993 to December 2013, and retrospectively to 1970. The report highlights the recent multi-national collaborative study published that has verified the correlation between surveillance intensity and reported disease incidence.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84942572298
M3 - Article
C2 - 25631598
AN - SCOPUS:84942572298
SN - 1447-4514
VL - 38
SP - e348-e355
JO - Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report
JF - Communicable Diseases Intelligence Quarterly Report
IS - 4
ER -